Project HEADWAY: The PM Scorecard: What Should You Really Be Focussing On?

 

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It is human nature to keep score. We like to know how we are doing, and we are hardwired with an achievement orientation that wants to be successful.

The challenge, for project managers, is having a reasonable expectation of how to keep score in a meaningful and relevant way. Or, in other words, having a clear sense of what success actually looks like.

Ask a project manager about success, and you will quickly get back a response that sounds awfully close to, "delivering projects on time, on budget and to quality." Without question, the universality of this rote response is impressive. But is this really what is most important? Is this how we should be keeping score? Or perhaps most critically, is this the only way we should be keeping score?

In this presentation, Mark Mullaly delves into the question of what makes a successful project manager. The presentation explores the traditional dimensions of success, and the implications and challenges that they represent. More importantly, it explores additional potential dimensions that may be important, and the impact these have on our organizations, our projects, our teams particularly ourselves. From this foundation, Mark suggests a way of rethinking about our personal scorecards as project managers, and what we may need to be more appropriately keeping front-and-centre as measures of success.

If what gets measured is what gets managed, then what goes on our scorecards as project managers has a critical influence. Join us for this webinar; your success could depend upon it.

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