Project Team Leadership and Communication

Project team leadership is challenging.You've been self-motivated your whole life. You've mastered the skills and technical expertise required by your field. Your colleagues and peers respect you as a professional and a friend. But nothing has prepared you for the host of challenges that come with leading a team: oppressive schedules, demanding customers, and people who just can't seem to get to work. This book takes a step-by-step approach in helping you to understand how to fulfil the expectations of a team leader -from gaining a basic grasp of what makes a project a project -to techniques in estimating time and creating schedules -to how to properly communicate reports, metrics, and numbers in a way that's relevant to those who care about your project.You'll learn how to: Understand the principles of leadership, and how they apply to you as a professional and those you work with Properly prioritize tasks, project schedules, and customer demands Analyze and manage the expectations