This document summarizes a presentation on project leadership and taking a people-first approach to project management. The presentation discusses how organizations are increasingly focusing on leadership skills in addition to technical skills. It also covers keys to project success like focusing on teams, collaboration, understanding people's motivations and communication styles. The presentation promotes embracing a people-first approach to project management by engaging stakeholders, building teams and demonstrating leadership.

1. Project
Leadership
Unlocking Potential: A People First Approach to Project
Management

2. How to accelerate team
collaboration in your project
Your Personalised Path to Project
Leadership
The questions to help you
uncover people's natural energy
How to build your ideal team
Key takeaways:
Today's
Agenda

3. Melanie Colling
• Certified Project Management Professional
• 25+ years Project Management experience
• IT, Infrastructure, Software and Procurement
project experience
• Managed multi million dollar projects and
hundreds of people throughout my career
• 2015 established Purpose Driven Projects

4. I began my Project
Management career
(although I didn't know it at
the time) as a Change
Control Manager for Telstra
in RACE - Analogue
Mobiles (yes...I am that
old!?)
20TH FEBRUARY
1995
Obtained PMI Certification
The following day I gave
birth to my daughter,
Isabelle who is now 11
years old.
8TH DECEMBER
2009
Left full time employment in
corporate and moved into
my business full time
plus...moved to...
31ST AUGUST
2016
Milestones
Took my profile test and
started my journey of
entrepreneurship and
learning.
17TH MARCH
2013

5. From Employee to
Entrepreneur
Bali
I moved my family to Bali for 7 months where I hosted
and facilitated a Business Accelerator Program for over
150 global entrepreneurs.

6. I am also a...

7. What the
data is
saying...
Pulse data shows most organisations place
nearly an equal emphasis on developing
leadership skills as they do technical skills
(65 percent and 68 percent, respectively).

8. LUCA GIRAUDO, PMP
Senior Manager, Accenture,
London, England
“Project managers of the future will not
be mere executors of project
management approaches. There’s a lot
of focus on building new skills
alongside the existing ones,”
DEV RAMCHARAN, PMP
Management Consultant,
City of Toronto, Canada.
“There are a set of competencies we
have to develop outside of the
technical skills and tools that we’ve
traditionally focused on as project
managers. One of the things that is
really becoming apparent worldwide is
the importance of people skills—
interpersonal proficiency.”
PRISCILA DUARTE, PMP
Technical Delivery Manager,
Microsoft, São Paulo, Brazil
“In the future, artificial intelligence will
be doing a lot of the reporting and
administrative work. So it will be
important for project managers to
invest in their leadership skills and
other people skills because those will
never go away.”
What the experts are saying...
Quotes from PMI 2020 Signposts and PMI 2020
Pulse of the Profession Reports

9. And that means project professionals will need not only
technical prowess but stellar leadership and stakeholder
engagement skills, too.
PMI advocates that to truly make a difference,
organizations need project leaders who bring holistic
perspectives, a deep curiosity and broad skill sets to the
work at hand.
That means an increased demand for versatile and bold
project leaders—capable of embracing new ways of
working, leading diverse teams and exploring innovative
solutions.
Are you ready?

10. What is your definition of
Project Leadership?
QUESTION?
What does Project Leadership mean to you?
What comes to mind when you hear the term Project Leadership?
Write your answer in the chat.

11. Management
v's Leadership
Influence and inspiration separate
leaders from managers, not power and
control.
• Management consists of controlling
a group or a set of entities to
accomplish a goal.
• Leadership refers to an individual's
ability to influence, motivate, and
enable others to contribute toward
organisational success.

12. How is your team
performing?

13. Entice your audience
with stunning visuals
PMBOK
Changes
PRINCIPLE V'S
PROCESS BASED
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT

14. The Focus is on People
STEWARDSHIP
Be a diligent, respectful, and caring steward
STAKEHOLDERS
Engage stakeholders to understand their interests and needs
LEADERSHIP
Motivate, influence, coach and learn
TEAM
Build a culture of accountability and respect

15. People First
Approach
Keys to Success

16. Let’s focus on
Team
Collaboration

18. Your
Compass
FIND YOUR UNIQUE WAY

19. Good design
matters
Your
Contribution
CUSTOMER SERVICE
CONNECTION/
LEADERSHIP
NEGOTIATION
TRACKING/
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
ANALYSIS
IDEAS/PROBLEM SOLVING
PRESENTATION
TOOLS/
SYSTEMS

20. Good design
matters
Entice your audience
with stunning visuals
FREEDOM
VARIETY
CONNECTION
CERTAINTY
Motivations
and Needs
FUN &
ENTERTAINMENT
COMFORT &
RELIABILITY
CARE & COMPASSION
THRILL & EXCITEMENT
INTROVERT EXTROVERT

21. Good design
matters
Entice your audience
with stunning visuals
VISUAL
AUDITORY
KINESTHETIC
DIGITAL/DATA
Learning and
Communication
Styles
HEARING
EXPERIENCING/TRYING
ANALYSING
SEEING
DETAIL CONVERSATION

22. Good design
matters
Entice your audience
with stunning visuals
TASK BASED LEADER
PEOPLE BASED
LEADER
ACTIVITY BASED LEADER
DATA BASED
LEADER
Leadership
Styles
COLLABORATION
CONSULTATION
CALCULATION
CREATION

23. Good design
matters
Entice your audience
with stunning visuals
HOW?
Clue: Listen to
the Questions?
WHO?
WHAT?
WHEN?
WHY?

24. POLL: What natural
energy are you?
QUESTION?
• Are you always asking the WHAT question - What are we doing? What's
next? What can I do? What are we trying to achieve?
• Are you always asking the WHO question - Who can I ask about that? Who
would know the answer to that question? Who is the best person for that job/
project?
• Are you always asking the WHEN question - When do you need that by?
When will you have that to me? When does that need to be completed?
• Are you always asking the HOW question - How is that going to work? How
do you see that happening? How are you going to do that? How can we do
that?
Choose 1 answer in the poll in the chat

25. Good design
matters
Entice your audience
with stunning visuals
FORMING
STORMING
NORMING
PERFORMING
4 Phases of
Team
Development
Note: Bruce Tuckman's Model

26. Good design
matters
Entice your audience
with stunning visuals
INITIATION
PLANNING
EXECUTION
MONITORING
&
CONTROLLING
5 Phases of
Project
Management
CLOSURE

27. Good design
matters
Entice your audience
with stunning visuals
10
Project
Management
Knowledge
Areas RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
TIME
MANAGEMENT
STAKEHOLDER
MANAGEMENT
COMMUNICATION
MANAGEMENT
SCOPE
MANAGEMENT
COST &
PROCUREMENT
MANAGEMENT
RISK
MANAGEMENT
QUALITY
MANAGEMENT
INTEGRATION
MANAGEMENT

28. Entice your audience
with stunning visuals
INNOVATION
CULTURE
INFRASTRUCTURE
BIG DATA
Career
Management
• OUTSOURCING
• TELECOMMS
• M&A
• ESTABLISHED COMPANIES
• EDUCATION/HEALTHCARE
• MINING
• PROCUREMENT
• BANKING
• FINANCIAL
SERVICES
• STARTUPS/ENTREPRENUER
• T&T
• SOFTWARE

29. Entice your audience
with stunning visuals
Creating Your
Ideal Team
THE 1,2, 3 RULE
1
2
3

30. Entice your audience
with stunning visuals
The Benefits
of a People
First Approach

31. Q&A
Thank-you for your time tonight and
more than happy to answer any
questions you have!

32. Contact me
If you want to know more about the People First
Approach, here is how you can get in touch!
Let’s keep the conversation going…
0447 772 858
PHONE NUMBER
mel@melaniecolling.com
EMAIL ADDRESS
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
melaniecolling/
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