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Four Steps to Drive Up the Value
of Project Managers in Your
Business
Marilyn Bota
Bluestone Process Dynamics
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The Problem
• Managers and business leaders, especially in
transactional organizations, often do not perceive the
value of project managers. Project management
methodology is often mistaken for bureaucracy.
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What’s Worse
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• PMOs fail without leadership buy-in
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What’s Worse
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• Issues with the PMO’s value proposition
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Gap Analysis:
What Project Managers Need to Consider
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Do your homework
Take the time to make it simple
Concise and compelling communications
Short meetings, facilitated well
• Tying projects and their results to the strategy
• Respect for their time
• Successful outcomes
• Confidence in their team
• No surprises
Build trust
… No surprises
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1.Strategic Connection
• What are the strategic goals of the organization?
• How does your project fit within the strategy?
• Have you communicated this?
• If you terminated the project today, who would be most
affected?
• Would the competition care?
• What industry data do you have to show value to the
project?
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Connect the Dots- “This project…to our Strategy.”
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If There isn’t a Strategy…
• Are you in a business or institution that doesn’t plan
their future?
• Is there informal agreement on a direction?
• What’s the word on your competition?
• Does your project help the business:
– Grow?
– Stay competitive?
– Reduce cost?
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Connect your Project to what Matters
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2. Speaking the Language
Your challenge:
• Every business has it’s own culture
• Every industry has it’s own language
Learn both or you will quickly become dispensable
• Take internal classes, learn the products
• Read available employee communications
• Watch professional interactions
• Join relevant industry organizations
• Network outside of your PMO
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Which 15 Words Matter Most
• If you were to mentor a new project manager, what would
you say is important:
– To the business
– To the organization
– To the PMO
What words matter enough that they should understand?
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ROI
Options Lean
Agile
Customer-centric Med Sup
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3. Know Your Audience
• What do they care about?
• What industry are they grounded in?
• Where are your constituents located?
• What level within the organization are you dealing with?
• What do you hear discussed most often by senior
leaders?
• Is your business private or publicly held?
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Exercise
• One “WORD” per Post ItTM – Words that matter to your
managers, your business, and your senior leaders
• Place them on the wall
• Affinitize* similar words
*Group
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Which fifteen matter most to your business leaders?
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Preparing for your Audience
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Emotion
Education Action
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1. Consider what you need to communicate
2. Write three to five bullets (no more) that you consider
important to the topic
3. Consider your audience’s baseline
4. What do you want of your audience?
Education
Emotional Connection
Take Action (What action?)
5. Practice
Preparing Your Elevator Speech
Communication Includes Your Tone and Body Language
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4. Selecting the Right Project Manager
for the Job
• Talented project managers come in many designs
• Their personality and demeanor should to some degree
match that of the organization
• Take the time to check out references
• Put process around the interviewing of candidates
• Work as a team and with HR to determine the tough
questions for your business
• Group interviews allow for time to observe
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Personality Types
• Quick assessment guide
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Some Individuals Flex to Their Natural Orientations
Based on Environment or Stress Levels
People
Oriented
Socializer
Intent: Persuade
Manage to: Ego
Motto: Just Do It
Wants: Applause • What you may get with this hiring decision:
Unrealistic goals
Fast decisions
Needing reassurance
Excitable
Persuasive
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Personality Types
• Quick assessment guide
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Some Individuals Flex to Their Natural Orientations
Based on Environment or Stress Levels
People
Oriented
Relater
Intent: Supportive
Manage to: Personal Value
Motto: Let’s Please
Wants: Peer Attention
• What you may get with this hiring decision
Risk averse
Insecure
Lack of goals
Avoids conflict
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Personality Types
• Quick assessment guide
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Driver
Intent: Overcome
Manage to: Impatience
Motto: Now
Wants: Results
Information
Oriented
Impatient
Workaholic
Demanding
Blunt
Tough
• What you may get with this hiring decision
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Personality Types
• Quick assessment guide
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Thinker
Intent: Avoid Trouble
Manage to: Preciseness
Motto: Just the Facts
Wants: Activity
Information
Oriented
• What you may get with this hiring decision
Seeking perfect information
Slow to decide
Conservative
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Give Business Leaders a Reason to
Believe:
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Tying projects and their
results to the strategy
Respect for their time
• Successful outcomes
Confidence in their
team
• No surprises
1.Make the Strategic Connection
2. Know your audience & prep
3. Language of the organization
4. Hire the right players
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Contact Information
Marilyn Bota
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