Table of Contents to The Strategic Project Leader

• Foreword
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• How to Use This Book
  
• Introducing: A New Kind of Project Leader
  
• About the Author

Section 1: The New Project Leader

• Chapter 1 Leadership in Project Management: A Defining Moment
  Introduction
  Bob's Story
  Are We Better Off?
  Trend toward Specialization
  Understanding Leadership
  Carol's Story
  Challenges for Practitioners
  "I Don't Have the Authority"
  "I Don't Have the Ability"
  "The Organizational Culture Must Change First"
  A Defining Moment
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 2 Emergence of the Service-Based Project Leader
  Introduction
  Importance of Transformation
  Separating from the Pack
  Efficiency
  Customization
  Foresight
  Connectedness
  Filling the Role of Service-Based Project Leader
  The Younger Generation of Workers
  The Volunteer's Story
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 3 Trends in Project Management
  Introduction
  Carmen's Story
  Growing Expectations
  Project Management as a Service
  Trends Devaluing Project Management
  Professional Services Becoming Commodities
  The Optometrist's Story
  Information Technology Case Study
  "What" versus "How" Work Gets Done
  Vertical Disintegration
  Implications for Project Management Practitioners
  New Managerial Work
  Practitioner Information Overload
  New Work, Old Model
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 4 Project Management Certifications: The Leadership Angle
  Introduction
  The Value of Certifications
  Project Management Certifications
  Australian Institute of Project Management
  International Project Management Association
  Project Management Institute
  Problems with Certification
  Jacque's Story
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 5 Professionalism and the Project Manager
  Introduction
  Obstacles to Professionalism
  The Leadership Void
  Performance and Expectations Gap
  Contributors to Leadership Void
  Organizations
  Practitioners
  Trainers
  Where Do We Go from Here?
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 6 Trends Favoring the Service-Based Project Leader
  Introduction
  Projects as Strategy
  Projects Shape Strategy
  Strategic Project Offices
  Research and Education
  Ethics in Project Leadership
  Community
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 7 Discovering the New Project Leader in You
  Introduction
  A Commitment Story
  Committing to Personal Change
  Unfulfilled Needs + Natural Abilities = Initiation of Personal Change
  Ownership: Whose Career Is It, Anyway?
  Life Choices
  Decisions
  Truth
  Personal Confidence
  Group Confidence
  Psychological Barriers
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 8 Finding Meaning in Creating, Rather Than Problem Solving
  Introduction
  Personal Visioning
  Group Visioning
  The Creativity in All of Us
  Creativity in Project Management
  Exploiting the Creative Process in Project Management
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 9 Making the Commitment
  Introduction
  Barriers to Commitment
  Fear of Change
  Stress
  Impact of Stress on Your Heart and Mind
  Durable Energy
  Elements of Commitment
  Alignment
  Direction
  Authenticity
  Rare Opportunity
  Summary and Endnotes

Section 2: The MyProjectAdvisor® Leadership Competency Framework

• Chapter 10 Competence: The Foundation of Leadership
  Introduction
  Competence
  Background on Project Management Competencies
  Project Management Competency Development Framework Overview
  IPMA ICB Standard
  Lack of Focus on Behavioral Leadership
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 11 The Customer's Perception of Your Project: Stakeholder Management
  Introduction
  The Paying Customer's View
  Strategic Project Characteristics
  Uniqueness
  Risk
  Temporary in Nature
  Playing Field
  Decision Making
  Diversity
  What Customers Really Want
  Leader Instead of Manager
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 12 The Strengths of a Service-Based Project Leader: The MyProjectAdvisor® Leadership Competency Pyramid
  Introduction
  Overview of MyProjectAdvisor® Leadership Competency Pyramid
  Knowledge, Skill, and Experience
  Subject Matter Expertise
  Trust-Based Relationships
  Consultative Leadership
  Courage
  Balancing the Pyramid's Layers
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 13 Building Your Base-Knowledge, Skills, Experience
  Introduction
  Building Project and Program Management Knowledge
  A Certification Story
  Building Project Management Skills
  Real Needs
  Strategic Need Statement: Example
  Tactical Need Statement: Example
  Leading with Work Breakdown Structures
  A WBS Story
  Stakeholder Management with "Simple" Project Network Diagrams
  Risk
  Building Project Management Experience
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 14 Building Subject Matter Expertise
  Introduction
  Why Leaders Need Subject Matter Expertise
  Mastering the Acquisition of Subject Matter Expertise
  Follow the Money: Revenue and Cost
  Business Process Mapping
  Research and Networking
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 15 Trust-Based Relationships
  Introduction
  Obstacles
  Building Trust on Projects
  Building Blocks of Trust for Project Leaders
  The Value Proposition
  Credibility
  Reliability
  Intimacy
  Tips for Building Intimacy on Projects
  Low Self-Orientation
  Listening and Disengaging
  Tips for Low Self-Orientation
  Customer and Project Team Trust-Based Relationships
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 16 Consultative Leadership: Becoming a Service-Based Project Leader
  Introduction
  Advisory Nature
  Serving versus Coaching
  Power
  The Need for Advising
  Tips for Advising
  Consultative Leadership Process
  Engage
  Listen
  A Story about Listening
  Frame
  A Story about Framing Vision
  Commit
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 17 Courage
  Introduction
  Environmental Impacts on Courage
  Risk Attitudes
  Modifying Risk Attitudes
  Emotional Literacy
  Summary and Endnotes

Section 3: Self -Directed Project Leadership Development

• Chapter 18 The Conscious Leader
  Introduction
  Projects That Change the World
  My Story
  An Engineer's Story
  Overview of Self-Directed Project Leadership Development
  New Training Methods
  Project Management and Self-Directed Project Leadership Development
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 19 Commitment to Leadership: Taking Control
  Introduction
  Commitment
  Human Motivation Theories and the Service-Based Project Leader
  Significance and Motivation
  Commitment Killers
  Culture of Fear
  Fatigue
  Denying Failure
  The Boxer's Story
  A Healthy Commitment
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 20 Acquiring and Assessing Project Leadership Skills
  Introduction
  Acquisition
  Considerations for Assessment
  Formal and Informal Assessments
  Internal Assessment
  Style and Strengths
  Environment
  Assessing the Base of the Leadership Competency Pyramid
  Initiation and Planning
  Execution
  Control and Monitoring
  Closing
  Assessing the Rest of the Pyramid
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 21 Practicing to Be a Service-Based Project Leader
  Introduction
  Active Leadership Experience^TM
  Practicing Mental Skills
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 22 Serving Your Community as Teacher and Student
  Introduction
  Three Calls to Serve
  The Teacher Becomes a Student … and Vice Versa
  Giving to Receive
  Model for Advancement
  Measuring the Service-Based Project Leader
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 23 Communities of Practice
  Introduction
  Communities of Practice: Role in Self-Directed Learning
  CoPs Reinforce Self-Directed Project Leadership Development
  Benefits of a Community of Practice
  Starting a Community of Practice
  Summary and Endnotes
• Chapter 24 Developing Your Action Plan
  Introduction
  Thirty Days to Sixty Days
  Commit
  Acquire and Assess Leadership Behaviors
  Practice
  Outcomes
  Two to Six Months
  Commit
  Acquire and Assess Leadership Behaviors
  Practice
  Outcomes
  Six months to One year
  Commit
  Acquire and Assess
  Practice
  Serve
  Outcome
  Summary

Section 4: Understanding Assessments
By Roberta F. Hill, MBA, MCC

• Chapter 25 Introduction to Assessments for Project Leaders
  Introduction
  Windows of a Leader
  When to Use Assessments
  Types of Assessments
  Steve's Story
  What Steve Discovered-and His Team Already Knew
  Outcome
  The Platinum Rule® Model
  Directors
  Socializers
  Thinkers
  Relaters
  Other Tools
  MBTI®
  DISC-Based Instruments
  The Kolbe Indexes
  Strengths
  Endnotes
• Chapter 26 What?! My Boss Wants Me to Take a 360-Degree: What You Need to Know
  Introduction
  Debbie's Story
  What Debbie Discovered-But Her Team Already Knew
  Benefits of 360-Degree Feedback Programs
  Theoretical Basis for Multi-Rater Feedback
  The History and Development of the Self-Awareness Movement
  Fundamental Theories
  Scientific Studies
  Additional Tools
  FIRO-B
  Enneagram
  Whole Brain Thinking
  Emotional Intelligence or Emotional Quotient
  Social Styles
  Endnotes
• Chapter 27 Team Effectiveness
  Introduction
  Carlos's and the IT Team's Story
  What the Team Discovered-and "Outsiders" Already Knew Outcome
  The Life Cycle of a Project Team
  Forming
  Storming
  Norming
  Performing
  Adjourning
  Endnotes
  

• Appendix A
  
• Appendix B
  
• Index

About the Book

From The Strategic Project Leader: Mastering Service-Based Project Leadership by Jack Ferraro. Auerbach Publications, 2007. Listen to Jack talk about the stragetic project leader.