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PROUD MEMBER OF PMI
ORANGE COUNTY
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Most projects in today's fast-paced business world
are team-based. Deadlines and deliverables are the
focus of most team projects. But timelines,
flowcharts, and software can't ensure that a project
will be completed on time, or that a high-quality
result will be delivered. To have projects run
smoothly and produce deliverables on time, project
teams need to be able to function as a cohesive
unit. Project team members need to communicate
effectively and manage themselves through the
conflicts that will inevitably occur. Relationships
within teams are not intangible, unmanageable
aspects of a project; they are the key ingredients
to successful project management.
The Strength Deployment Inventory will give the
individuals working together on a project team the
understanding of each other that they need to work
effectively together. The SDI will provide the
platform from which effective working relationships
will be crafted. Once the team members know each
other's motivational values, they will be able to
communicate more effectively and work toward common
goals, avoiding unwarranted conflict.
The Portrait of Personal Strengths can help to
further define specific skills that each individual
brings to the project team. It will also help each
individual to know what skills they may need to
borrow in order to push the project to completion.
Finally, the Expectations Edition of the SDI will
help the project team members to define what they
believe the role of each project team member to be.
This will open up an honest and non-judgmental
discussion of the expectations of each team member,
as well as the ideal for the team as a whole. In
setting and managing expectations for the team, the
team can avoid falling into unwarranted conflict
over unmanaged and ill-defined expectations.
When used in conjunction with each other, these
tools will provide the background personal
information and team expectations to ensure the
timely and successful completion of the team's
projects.
Personal Strengths Publishing offers a low-tech
approach to project management-Project Management:
The Team Approach is a complete project management
system that stresses the importance of interpersonal
relationships to the timely and successful
completion of projects. This course helps project
teams to understand the principles of project
management and create a project plan, which can then
be used as input for any software program. This
Facilitation Guide and accompanying workbook was
authored by Gary Robinson, a Personal Strengths
Publishing master trainer with over twenty years of
training and consulting experience. Gary has trained
many organizations around the globe in the
successful use of this project management program.
Project Management: The Team Approach integrates the
SDI and the Expectations Edition of the SDI into the
coursework, so that effective interpersonal
communication is presented as a cornerstone of
successful project management. Teams learn how
motivational values affect perception and
communication. They also learn how conflict
sequences can easily progress deeper and deeper if
the conflict is not well managed. Teams learn how to
apply the knowledge they gain about their own and
other team members' relating styles so that they can
avoid communication issues and work toward common
goals without the hindrance of unwarranted conflict.
The Expectations Edition of the SDI helps teams to
set relationship expectations within and across the
team, clarifying roles within the team.
Many organizations have found this low-tech project
management method to fit well within their culture,
enabling them to complete projects on time, with
high-quality results.
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All of our
training is based on the principals
of Relational Awareness. The Author
& Developer of Relationship
Awareness, Elias H. Porter received
his Ph.D. degree in Psychology from
the Ohio State University in 1941
Click on the links below
to view a video clip.
Meet Elias H Porter
Elias H Porter On Conflict
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