Supercommunicator
Frank J Pietrucha
- 16 juni 2014
- 9780814433683
Samenvatting:
You’ve just developed an amazing technological advancement. But can you explain it all to the average Joe? Your success might depend on it!
A practical on-the-job resource for project managers in any industry, The Project Management Tool Kit has helped get countless projects completed on time and on budget. Now in an extensively revised third edition, this indispensable resource enables you to succeed amid shifting priorities, budget cuts, interruptions, and other obstacles.
The book addresses 100 specific project challenges, including all of the processes identified in the fifth edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). But unlike the PMBOK Guide®, which focuses on what to do, this up-to-the-minute edition of The Project Management Tool Kit provides you with specific, step-by-step “how-to” guidance on essential topics such as:
Scope planning l Schedule development and adjustment l Cost estimating and control l Communications l Decision making and problem solving l Working with new teams and new technology l Motivation and leadership l Stakeholder engagement and expectation management l Risk identification and monitoring l Software and technical tools l Activity definition and delegation l Selecting and using project metrics l Resource planning and budgeting l Documentation and project monitoring l Handling inherited projects l Special situations, contingencies, and project cancellations l Project cause-and-effect analysis l Forecasting project completion l And much more
Complete with checklists, charts, examples, and tools for easy implementation, the third edition contains all new information on topics including cost planning, schedule planning, scope planning, stakeholder engagement control, stakeholder management planning, and much, much more.
No matter where you are in your project management career, you need to stay on top of all the latest developments in the field...and you can always use all the help you can get. Fully revised, The Project Management Tool Kit is the one reference you need.
TOM KENDRICK, PMP, is a program director for UC Berkeley Extension. His experience includes almost four decades of directing projects for Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, DuPont, and Visa, Inc., and as an independent consultant. A regular speaker at conferences, associations, and universities, he is the author of Results Without Authority and Identifying and Managing Project Risk.
In our increasingly complicated and data-driven world, many new developments are so complex that only experts comprehend their nuances. But what they don't grasp is how to tell the world about them. Communicating technical content to nontechnical listeners has fast become a critical 21st-century skill. Explaining what you do and why it's important drives funding, policy decisions, media exposure, public awareness, and customer adoption.
This groundbreaking guide will help anyone to deliver clear, persuasive messages that win hearts, minds, and budgets. Supercommunicator explains how to:
● Distill details and data into big ideas
● Deliver meaning to audiences
● Use storytelling to captivate and educate
● Humanize content to make complicated ideas more tangible
● Layer harder ideas on top of easier ideas
● Strip away complex language, jargon, and acronyms
● Use analogies to explain unfamiliar areas
● Master new digital modes of expression
● And more
Enhanced with a wealth of examples--from how the National Academy of Sciences used audience research to improve the way evolution is taught, to how NASA incorporated cutting-edge tools to visualize issues in climatology--this one-of-a-kind book reveals how to make the complex comprehensible, and the dry deeply compelling.