Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams
Reviews
What’s in this book for you? It’s a great resource to learn more about the importance of strengths in projects. But don’t take our word for it – check out these reviews from professionals to professors who understand the value of team members using their talents and strengths on a project.
This is how ALL project teams should be formed! The steps identified in this book help project leaders to not only identify the talents and strengths of each of its team members but to then create a plan on how to leverage them for team success. From assessment to implementation, this book has it all. It is a MUST read for any project leader or team member.
~Stephanie Moore, Executive Coach, The Moore Group
Project management and team-based skills are among the top proficiencies that companies are seeking in their managers today. Connie and Martha have skillfully brought the two together in an outstanding guide filled with usable tools. Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams is a book for all experience levels. Whether you are new to the world of project management or a seasoned leader, you will garner valuable takeaways from this book. It is not only designed for thought and reflection, but also a handy tool for field work. Carry it with you wherever your work takes you. This is a book that you will go back to time and time again. Success in leading project teams can catapult you ahead in today's fast-paced and ever changing environment.
~Laurie Yates, DMgt, Visiting Professor, Oregon Institute of Technology
My staff and I used principles from this book at a recent staff retreat. As we move into a new year, we are looking at individual strengths relative to project objectives and how to maximize those for team achievement. We work with association volunteers and aligning expectations, as described in the book with application of staff strengths influences our outcomes.
~Sheila Meserschmidt
In the world we live today, more than ever, it's the people who really make the difference in the project's success in corporations.
A great combination of the authors Connie and Martha with their large knowledge and experience in academic and professional areas, they wrote this excellent book that addresses us directed to the point, in this crucial question about project team's development.
This is how project teams should be created and driven to project success.
It's a pleasant read, very important to be read by all those who wish to take their projects to another level, improving their personal and team skills.
~Francis Rímoli, MBA, PMP, LIMC
Reading the first chapter it is obvious this is written by experts that not only "get it," but know how to explain it and demonstrate how to do it. Loaded with good information on team development, managing, growing, and executing I find this to be a wonderful source for being a project manager's manager. Packed with templates, exercises, and action plans. This is a valuable resource for the beginning project manager through an experienced PMP. Additionally, it using the concept of a retrospective to help you evaluate yourself as a leader of a strong team and create plans to help you grow with the team. This compliments any book I have seen on servant leadership with the additional insights of people who have been there and done that.
~D. Davis
Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams provides key definitions and steps necessary to identify, develop, and utilize key leadership traits for improving project team management effectiveness. By combining the research conducted by Gallup scientists on the identification of key leadership traits and strengths with the proven project management concepts defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI), a well-grounded symbiotic relationship emerges that will enhance the project team and project manager effectiveness in today's ultra-dynamic world. Written in an easily read manner, this book is a must read for anyone, whether company, organization, student, professional, or anyone else who has a vital interest in not only enhancing their project management skills, but also enhancing life skills.
~Frank Corona, BSEE, MSEM, Lead Instructor-Project Management