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PMO Tips: Five A+ habits PMO managers like project managers to have
| Posted: February 26, 2008 10:15 AM |
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Ian Whittingham says:
This is a great list of effective habits for project managers, regardless of whether you work with or for a PMO or not. You might also like to consider adding a sixth A to this list - acknowledgement, which underpins all of the other A's. Judy Imlas identifies seven principles of acknowledgement in her book, The Power of Acknowledgement (IIL, 2007), that can influence project participant behaviors in very positive ways. Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:05:02 AM EST
Steve Romero says:
This is a "nice" post with some very "nice" ideas. I use the word nice because it is a little too touch-feely for me. To start, I am not a big fan of Stephen Covey's model. I would replace the word habit with the word behavior. I think our knowledge (which I will assume includes beliefs - which are HUGE in affecting human behavior), skills and desires drive our behavior. Whether or not our behaviors become habitual is another discussion entirely. Whenever I talk about anything related to any job, activity, or task, I stress the importance of human behavior and the values that drive desired behavior. While working at CSAA (AAA of Northern California), leadership established an HR Program called "Vision and Values." Our leaders believed (and I emphatically agree) that behaviors are just as important as results, so half of our performance assessment was based solely on our behaviors. Yes, instituting this approach is a challenge of tremendous proportion that I won't go into here. I would like to share the list of the Values and their associated behaviors:
Mark Perry says:
Steve, you wrote "...behaviors are just as important as results..." A leadership team is wise to advocate that as part of the belief system not to mention appraisal process. Thanks for sharing. Friday, February 29, 2008 1:43:01 PM ESTPlease Login/Register to leave a comment.
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