Gautrey Unleashed

Feedback Season: Fact, Fiction and independence

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I've just realised that it's feedback season again. Annual appraisals, performance reviews and all of that feedback coming in to you about what you've done last year, how your performance is rated. So I thought I'd just stop by and suggest a few things to remember when you're getting all of this feedback. And I hope the person doing your performance appraisal, takes these on board too. The first thing is, feedback is really just an opinion. Yes, it could be a very credible opinion depending on who it is, but it does depend on who it is. So whenever you're getting feedback, try to regard it as input to your personal decision-making process about what you're going to do differently. Read More

A Project Manager’s Guide to Influence

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"Project managers who think their job is simply to execute their plan are deluding themselves. Clients want people who can fit in and work out how to get it done. Nobody paves the way and project managers have to figure out how to influence." Diane Dromgold, RNC Global Projects, Sydney, Australia.

This is not a book about project management. It is a book that shows project managers how to become more influential. It will encourage you to look at your project from a completely different perspective – in fact, many perspectives. You will learn how to make sense of the powerful dynamics shaping life for you and your stakeholders. Then it will show you processes you can adopt to ensure that you influence what needs to be influenced. Based on the author's earlier work in Advocates and Enemies: How to Build Practical Strategies to Influence Your Stakeholders, this book offers you a practical way to make things happen. Large or small, internal or external, all project managers can benefit from learning how to become more influential. If you are managing a project, are facing significant challenges in delivery, and are determined to overcome these challenges and succeed, you need this book.  

Here's what people are saying about it:

“Colin’s book takes stakeholder management from the abstract and peripheral role it has on most projects, to its rightful place as a powerful, structured discipline core to successful delivery. Full of practical approaches and real world experiences.” Richard Newton, Organizational Change specialist and award winning author of The Management Book and The Project Manager, Mastering the Art of Delivery. Read More

Jennifer McClure Interview

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Jennifer McClure – CEO of Unbridled Talent LLC & DisruptHR LLC Jennifer McClure is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and high performance coach who works with leaders to leverage their influence, increase their impact, and accelerate results. As a top-rated keynote speaker, she has shared her insights with thousands of leaders at conferences and corporate events around the world. Clients include Procter & Gamble, General Electric, IBM, SAP, Bloomberg, Charles Schwab, Stryker, LinkedIn, Notre Dame University, Society for Human Resource Management, and Association for Talent Development. Jennifer is also the Chief Excitement Officer of DisruptHR, a global community designed to move the collective thinking forward when it comes to talent in the workplace, and she hosts a weekly podcast – Impact Makers with Jennifer McClure – sharing conversations with practitioners, entrepreneurs, authors and speakers who are changing the world while building careers that they love, and lives that matter. Website:      http://jennifermcclure.net Website:     http://disrupthr.co LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifermcclure Twitter:     https://twitter.com/JenniferMcClure
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Preparing Influencing Goals

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These notes are intended to help you prepare your thinking about influencing goals ahead of your workshop. To be even more successful, what would you need to influence? What would need to change? There may be many things, and some you may not feel in control of. However, please stretch your thinking and consider things which you could work towards over a period of several months which, when successful, would substantially improve your results and contribution to the organisation's strategic objectives. You may wish to liaise with others around your role as well however, don't spend too much time. Often, allowing this to gestate between now and your workshop will suffice. Read More

Benefits of a Strong External Profile

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Talking with an up and coming banker in New York. He expressed the view, based on what he was noticing, that it is becoming increasingly important that people climbing the corporate ladder must have a strong external profile, on social media and the like. He believes, you must stand for something, and demonstrate it publicly. If you wish to maximise your potential, I agree wholeheartedly. Of course, it is well known that recruiters scour social media for the footprint of Read More

Beware Your Reputation’s Competition!

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Once you've decided where you want to build your reputation, another thing to consider, as you're doing the analysis of the environment, is what reputations are already there? This is important because there is a finite amount of air time for all of the reputations in that arena can get. So in a way, you could conceptualise this is all the reputations are jockeying for position, vying for the limelight, for the spotlight, to get the attention to come to them. Read More

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