Personal Effectiveness in Project Management: Tools, Tips and Strategies to Improve Your Decision-Making, Influence, Motivation, Confidence, Risk-Taking, Achievement and Self-Sustainability

  • 4h 6m
  • Zachary Wong
  • Project Management Institute
  • 2013

Most project managers are comfortable with the "hard" skills that their profession requires: planning, budgeting, procurement, quality, risk, execution, human resources, monitoring and control. They are typically less accomplished at the human behaviors behind the hard skills... the "soft" human factors that are actually the key drivers of project success...and failure.

In Personal Effectiveness in Project Management, project manager and professor Zachary A. Wong, PhD provides readers with the tools and techniques that not only help them improve their own personal performance, but that of their project teams as well.

Personal Effectiveness begins within.

Dr. Wong's decades of Personal Effectiveness experience taught him that learning soft skills requires the same rigor as hard skills. In fact, one of the book's most valuable achievements is putting “soft” skills into a “hard” framework that readers can use for themselves and their team members.

The book is divided into four modules, each addressing a different aspect of Personal Effectiveness: Decision-Making, Motivation, Achievement and Sustainability. The book's unique approach takes the reader through the modules, seeking to clarify and optimize the reader's performance in each area. Dr. Wong's book makes it clear however that these modules are not ends unto themselves, but rather exist to help each reader gain the communication and interpersonal skills necessary to lead and manage teams.

About the Author

Zachary A. Wong, Ph.D., D.A.B.T., is a highly acclaimed instructor of personal effectiveness, human factors, team dynamics and leadership at the University of California at Berkeley Extension and Adjunct Professor with the University of California at Davis. Dr. Wong has over thirty years of managerial and project management experience. He has held senior positions in research and technology, strategic planning, business analysis, mergers and acquisitions, and risk assessment. He has extensive experience as a senior manager and team facilitator.

Dr. Wong is currently an "Honored Instructor" at the University of California at Berkeley Extension and has received numerous teaching awards. For over twenty years, Dr. Wong has published and taught a wide range of courses in project management, team development, project economics, global marketing, environmental toxicology and strategic planning.

He was born and raised in San Francisco and received his Ph.D. in Toxicology and Pharmacology from the University of California at Davis. He has served extensively on project teams, executive leadership teams and decision review boards in public committees, industry associations and academia.

In this Book

  • Personal Effectiveness Cycle
  • Diversity: What Makes You Unique and Successful?
  • Values: How to Find Your True Beliefs
  • How to Make Great Decisions
  • Space: What Work Environment Brings Out Your Best?
  • Set Point: How to Manage Your Motivational State
  • How to Increase Motivation and Self-Confidence
  • Fear: What are You Worried About?
  • Inclusion: How to Stay in the Game and Win
  • How to "Turn the Corner" for Achievement
  • Passion: What do You Love to Do?
  • Personal Goals: How to Make Self-Promises and Keep Them
  • How to Achieve Self-Sustainability
  • Fulfilling Your Personal Effectiveness Cycle
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