Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams
Meet the Authors
Connie Plowman is a Gallup-certified strengths coach and certified Project Management Professional (PMP®-Retired) dedicated to helping individuals and teams reach their potential. She teaches project management at both community colleges and universities, incorporating the CliftonStrengths framework to boost student engagement and success. An advocate of strengths-based leadership, Connie uses Developing Strengths-Based Project Teams and its instructor resources to guide students in discovering their individual talents and the power of the collective strengths of a team. Her hands-on, strengths-focused approach helps students manage projects effectively while preparing them for academic and professional success. Through teaching, mentoring, and speaking, Connie empowers emerging project managers and leaders with the skills and mindset to lead with confidence, self-awareness, and purpose.
Contact Connie through LinkedIn or the Gallup-Certified Strengths Coaches Directory.
Martha Buelt, MA, is a Gallup-certified strengths coach for individuals, managers, and teams. Martha facilitates strengths-based talent development team processes, which equip teams to appreciate and leverage their collective strengths toward their team and organizational goals. She also presents and facilitates strengths education sessions and seminars for college campuses, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. Martha is passionate about equipping organizational leaders and managers to create and sustain a strengths-based organizational culture.
The Authors’ Strengths-Based Partnership Story
Strengths-based project teams integrate their knowledge, skills, and practice of strengths development with project management tools and techniques, equipping the project team to apply and maximize their collective strengths to successfully complete their project on time, within budget, and according to the project objectives and specifications.
Putting together a high-performing, strengths-based project team, such as ours, can be easily done! Here is our story…
Connie lives in Oregon and Martha lives in Minnesota. We came together through a mutual connection to write this book — each utilizing and maximizing our unique talents, specific strengths, and areas of expertise.
Connie brought her expertise as a certified Project Management Professional through the Project Management Institute (PMI), and Martha brought her strengths expertise as a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach.
In addition to integrating our areas of expertise, we also shared and applied our many collective talents and strengths we collaborated to successfully complete our book project. For example, we both have dominant Achiever® talents, which drive us to get things done. Connie used her dominant Focus® and Maximizer® talents and strengths to help us complete our project on time and remain within the book’s objectives. Martha used her dominant Connectedness® and Learner® talents and strengths toward integrating strengths best practices into our book.
And so this book came to life.
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