So said the head of schools inspectorate Ofsted, Sir Michael Wilshaw, on Thursday 10th May 2012 according to the Sunday Times. This is at variance with some of my teacher friends, who claim it to be a very stressful profession. Continue Reading
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Association for Project Management, Best Practice Groups (SIGs), Competence, NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management, Values and Behaviours
The executive’s guide to better listening
As the author of the linked McKinsey report says, we think that we are good listeners, including in the case of the executive described, and don’t accept the need to change, let alone go about it. Once people have realised that they are not good listeners, they hungrily devour techniques to fill that vacuum. Continue Reading
Association for Project Management, Best Practice Groups (SIGs), Leadership, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management
My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, I announce excellence in the management of projects
I had the honour of being amongst fellow directors of the Association for Project Management on Friday for the chairman’s lunch to witness President Martin Barnes award Honorary Fellowships to the great and the good of our profession. Continue Reading
Association for Project Management, Community of Practice, Competence, NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management, soft skills, Training
Public sector cuts: Developing project managers to help turn adversity into opportunity
Last time modernisation and cuts were attempted in public services, creation of capability in change management and delivery were overlooked. Can we re-frame this adversity as an opportunity to create the competence to do things differently? Continue Reading
High Performance Teams – Congratulations Mark Webber, Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull Racing after the Brazilian Formula 1 Grand Prix
It takes more than luck for a team to win a constructors championship, overall champion in Sebastian Vettel, and a Brazilian Grand Prix winner Mark Webber all in one go. In management we call it creating a high performance team, and there was also project management aplenty on show at Red Bull’s race HQ in Milton Keynes when I visited recently with the IoD. Continue Reading
Facilitation, NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management, soft skills, Training, Values and Behaviours
NLP and the Project Charter – a way of creating harmony across the team
Project Charters can be a very effective way of bringing a team together and quickly normalising behaviours to create high performing teams, even for global operations. Continue Reading
Coaching, Communications, Competence, Facilitation, NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management, soft skills, Training, Values and Behaviours
We don’t need more communication in projects…
We don’t need more communication in projects…
…we need more effective communication. Here’s how NLP for project managers can help. Continue Reading
Association for Project Management, Coaching, Communications, Community of Practice, Competence, Facilitation, NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management, soft skills, Training, Uncategorized, Values and Behaviours
Talk to Scotland branch – competences, emotional intelligence and psychology
I was invited up to Glasgow to speak on the 18th May and completed my Scottish hat trick after events in Edinburgh in March and Aberdeen in April. One head of PM capability for a multi-national engineering firm asked how the skills covered in my talk / book relate to emotional intelligence (EI) frameworks. Continue Reading
Association for Project Management, Best Practice Groups (SIGs), Coaching, Communications, Community of Practice, Facilitation, NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management, soft skills, Training, Uncategorized, Values and Behaviours
Facilitating strategy using NLP
I was asked to facilitate a strategy session across the Association for Project Management’s (APM) best practice groups last week at their twice-yearly forum and was able to put many NLP tools and techniques to effective use. Continue Reading
Coaching, Communications, Community of Practice, Facilitation, NLP, NLP4PM, Peter Parkes, project management, Research, soft skills, Training, Values and Behaviours
Is Project Leadership all in the mind ?
Being a certain kind of person, I spent some of my Easter holiday reading Goleman‘s book on Primal Leadership, and on my return opened Project Manager Today to read the article on ‘Project Management is all in the mind’ by Chem Silverman. Continue Reading