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Successful project managers must engage and motivate others to achieve complex goals.
Ruth Pearce shows how behavior, language, and attitudes affect engagement and how leveraging character strengths can help improve relationships, increase innovation, and build higher-functioning teams. This focus on character strengths – such as bravery, curiosity, fairness, gratitude, and humor – can help project managers recognize and cultivate the things that are best in themselves and others.
Many project managers do not have the authority to direct the activities of people on their teams – they can only influence them. The most influential people succeed by focusing less on themselves and their message and more on others. They pay attention; they are brave; they are vulnerable; they are curious, and they look for and acknowledge the things that are important about, and to, the other person. And they model the behavior that they want to see. This book tells you how.
Pearce provides tools and frameworks for building a culture of appreciation, understanding character strengths, mapping leadership qualities, understanding learning styles, identifying team roles, and executing plans. She also explores the factors that contribute to conflict and tensions as well as strategies for getting through difficult times. We see these tools and techniques in action through “Maggie”, a project manager who is struggling to motivate her team. Each chapter concludes with reflective questions to make the ideas stick and with key strategies for success.
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How do project managers achieve spectacular results when they have no direct authority over their team members? Here’s a foolproof process for engaging your team: one that begins with engaging yourself.
Ruth Pearce knows project management from the inside out. She knows the best project managers use their influence to engage their teams–and with that engagement comes motivation and commitment to the projects and to each other. Read Be a Project Motivator and watch your project teams thrive.”
–Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The New One Minute Manager® and Servant Leadership in Action
In her book, Be a Project Motivator, Ruth Pearce has created a toolbox that should be on every businessperson’s and entrepreneur’s shelf. Throughout the book, Pearce integrates the most important rule of cultural awareness—the platinum rule of mutual respect. With this book on your desk or in your bag, we can have a little bit of Ruth Pearce and her fabulous coaching and persistent positive guidance with us whenever we need her!”
—Gwendolyn VanSant, CEO and Founding Director, BRIDGE, and Equity and Inclusion Team Lead, Imagine Philanthropy
Ruth Pearce has written one of the must-read primers for project managers that will soon become an industry staple. She provides you with her lessons learned from thirty years of project management work on high-profile and complex projects.
—John Garahan, Vice President, Global Delivery, Broadridge Financial Solutions
Ruth is among the best project managers I’ve had the privilege of working with in my twenty-five years in business. She is able to take a seed, a mere idea, and cultivate it into a fully flourishing plant, a successful project. And all this with generosity, humor, and sensitivity.
—Tal Ben-Shahar, bestselling author of Happier and founder of the Happiness Studies Academy
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designsruth –
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2019
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Scott
I freely admit I’m a project management “nerd” and am proud of it. I’m even more proud to know Ruth and to have read her book. To clarify, I only connected with Ruth after diving into her book and being impressed with her take and experience. On the backside of that connection, and after getting to know her, I need to tell you one thing: buy the book.
Notice I didn’t say “if you are a project manager” or “if you want to learn project management” – I just said buy the book. You won’t regret it – Ruth is the real deal and a truly competent professional in her field.
I’ve been around the project management industry for a long time and around project managers even longer. This book is what the industry needs.
Great job, Ruth, well done.
designsruth –
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2020
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Michael Oster
In Be a Project Motivator, Ruth Pearce gives us an insightful and useful guide on how to use our character strengths to accomplish any project. A must read for project managers, members of project teams, and executives who use projects to achieve the organization’s goals. A solid “10” !
designsruth –
“This book integrates new learnings from positive psychology into the age-old practice of project management in a simple and practical way. I love how the chapters are set up with takeaways up front, highlighting the main points and priming the readers for applying the practices in their own workplace. Chapter 4 on “Building a Culture of Appreciation” was especially appealing to me as it beautifully demonstrates how we can use character strengths to practice appreciating our unique qualities and those of others. The author clearly understands project management and its inherent challenges and shows us how anyone can use the simple practices to make the role more effective, while having fun in the process!
Easy to read and evidence-based, any project manager can immediately begin implementing this step by step plan to help foster workplace wellbeing.”
-Suzann Pileggi Pawelski, co-author, Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love That Lasts (Penguin Random House, 2018)