So What Does It Take To Be A Good Project Manager Leader? Geoff Hingle

Topics Summary of some of my leadership challenges and lessons learned Project Management Leadership Model What it takes to be a good project manager

Some of My Leadership Challenges and Observations Assistant Weight Training Coach LSU –Strength –Knowledge Chief of Avionic System Engineering for F-16 and F-22 aircraft – General Dynamics/Lockheed –Experience –Management Training Software Development Litton Data Systems –Leading through adversity IT Project Office Entergy Services –Sphere of Influence Consulting as a contractor –Coaching others through adversity

Some of My Leadership Challenges and Observations Founding of PMOLink Inc –Partnering –Decision making when it’s your own money CEO Future System Advisors –Changing an industry isn’t easy Father of three sons –Lead by Example –I still have much to learn about leadership

Sharpen the Focus Launch the Project Spotlight the Shared Need Shape a Vision Build Commitment Influence Key Stakeholders Grow a Winning Team Communicate Drive For Lasting Results Utilize Appropriate Project Strategy Align Systems & Structures Keep Alive & Visible Sphere of Influence Lead The Change Project Management Leadership Model

l Sharpen the focus –Launch the project - ensure that the project is set up for success –Spotlight the shared need - identify why change is needed from the perspective of constituents –Shape a vision - articulate expected outcome so all constituents understand their role & impact l Build commitment –Influence key stakeholders - identify critical players and secure their commitment –Grow a winning team - create a team climate that encourages commitment and results –Communicate - inform, persuade, foster action from all constituents throughout the change l Drive for lasting results –Utilize appropriate project strategy - develop a project approach that is appropriate for the type of project –Align systems and structures - ensure training, staffing, measures, rewards, organizational structure, information systems, resource allocation, performance mgmt. all support the change –Keep alive & visible - ensure the project is continually visible, actively supported, positively viewed, desirable to be involved in l Lead the change –Ensure that there is active and visible leadership throughout the project change process Project Management Leadership Model

So What Does It Take To Be A Good Project Manager If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all doubt you; But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated don’t give way to hating And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

So What Does It Take To Be A Good Project Manager If you can plan-and not make plans your master; If you can think-and not make, thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to see the requirements you’ve captured Twisted in implementation to make a trap for fools, Or watch the designs you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools;

So What Does It Take To Be A Good Project Manager If you can make one heap of all your risks And mitigate them with one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

So What Does It Take To Be A Good Project Manager If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with VP’s-nor lose the common touch, If neither teammates nor customers can hurt you, If all count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And-which is more- you’ll be a Project Manager who gets a project done!