Best Books on Team Skills for Project Managers
Here are 3 book recommendations for managing teams on projects, or more specifically, getting the right mindset to succeed in a team environment.
Read more from Elizabeth
Interested in project management? Elizabeth Harrin is the author of several top-selling, practical guides to how to manage projects published by PMI, APM, Kogan Page and the British Computer Society.
Drawing from her own experience and plenty of case studies, surveys and research, these books are the ‘mentor on the shelf’ you need to get ahead and learn what really works when it comes to juggling your workload.
Books
Project management books reviewed and the top takeaways shared for you! Learn about the new trends in project management from the best authors.
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Managing in Complex Project Environments
Carole Osterweil shares how to manage in complex project environments and talks about her book Project Delivery, Uncertainty and Neuroscience in this interview.
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Best Leadership Books for Project Managers
What are the best leadership books for project managers? Well, ask 10 leaders and you’ll probably get 10 different lists. Here’s mine! These are books I have read over the years that I turn to time and time again for inspiration and because I know the strategies in them work. You can watch me talk…
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Best Agile Books for Project Managers
Here are my recommendations for the best agile books for project managers. Learn more about agile if you are looking to learn more or transitioning your organisation.
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Best Books for New Project Managers
I recommend these three books for new project managers to get your career off to a great start.
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Communicating Change: A New Book From Elizabeth
My book will make it easier for you to start talking, writing, presenting and sharing about your project in a way that takes the comms planning process and makes it as low stress as possible.
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Successful Project Governance: The Richard Heaslip interview
Author Richard Heaslip shares his expert views on how project governance leads to successful projects. Find out what’s next for the future of project governance and how your role as a project leader can influence your projects.
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Project Management Answers: Interview with author Jeff Furman
The PMBOK® Guide v5 refresh introduced new topics for students taking the PMP exam. Jeff Furman, author of The Project Management Answer Book, has just released a second edition of his book, covering all that and more. It’s a weighty book to support students preparing for the PMP exam and also more generally in their…
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Networking made easy: An interview with Will Kintish
Is your summer stretching ahead with one cocktail networking event after another? No? Mine neither. However, there is always some kind of requirement to met new people as a project manager, even if it’s just your next project team. And as author Will Kintish says, networking is simply about building relationships. I asked him for…
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Can you really manage with just 5 milestones?
“A perfect project plan for regular, light-touch steering should contain no more than five milestones,” writes Graham Allcott in his book, How To Be A Productivity Ninja. “Too often, milestones become micro-management or seem to provide complication and confusion rather than clarity. So in each of your projects, you should look for between one and…
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The connected project manager
Collaboration tools have a number of benefits, and enhanced communication with stakeholders is top of the list. You can use your communications strategy to identify and map stakeholders. Your chosen tools enable the project team to engage with stakeholders in a way that suits their preferences, and many people today have shifted the way they…
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The future of social communications on projects
Social communications form a large part of life outside the office, and the connected project manager needs to incorporate those ways of out-of-the-office communications into working practices today. Many stakeholders already use publicly available, consumer-led social communication tools to manage their personal networks. In our drive to be easy to do business with, it is…
