Kory Kogon - Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager: A FranklinCovey Title

In this book, Kory, Suzette, and James have created the ultimate blueprint for unofficial project managers. Youll go from amateur to adept in seven easy chapters.

Jay Wilkinson, founder and CEO of Firespring

Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager gets to the HEART of a challenge so many now face in the workplacethe need to ORGANIZE projects, on the fly, without training, to lead their companies to a new future. This is a GREAT bookExceedingly Practical, Easy-To-Read, Personable, and Hits the Spotyoull take control fast with the knowledge in these pages.

Julie Morgenstern, New York Times bestselling author of Time Management from the Inside Out

Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager is the new benchmark for real & truly effective project management. This is a must-read...

Gerry Aquino, Organizational Development and Learning at ssur Americas, Inc.

Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager is the best business improvement book that I have ever read. This book will become the guide for all of our future projects. We are already seeing massive improvements from the work sessions that Jim Wood conducted at our company, and this book will definitely enhance those improvements. Any person who follows the advice in this book will find a tremendous, positive impact on their career.

Tim Rancourt, president of Engineering and Manufacturing at Northern Tool + Equipment

Finally! A project management book that acknowledges and supports the people part of projects. Too many times we are focused on the work without recognizing that its people and relationships that have the biggest impact on project success. Practicing the Four Foundational Behaviors will help every unofficial project manager engage their team.

Deanna Carrera, director of Leadership and Learning at First Things First

In this age of lean corporate headcount, everyone, no matter what their title, is required to fill the role of project manager. And the new book, Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager, covers the core areas that any project professional needs to be successful. Additionally, FranklinCoveys work session gives you simple, straightforward, video-driven content that is easy to understand and put into practice. The book can also serve as a reinforcement tool to remind work session participants of their learning. Both are invaluable resources to any organization interested in improving efficiency and outcomes.

Robert Fitt, senior director of Human Resources at Broadcom Corporation

With Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager, FranklinCovey has put project management in the hands of everyday leaders. The book provides practical solutions and a straightforward process to craft shared vision, realistic timelines, and successful deliverables. If you are involved with executing projects of any size, you owe it to yourself and your team to read this book.

Kenneth Johnson, director of Training and Development for the State of Colorado

Sometimes we think of projects as large capital expenditures, but often all of our work is an unofficial project, and too often, we find ourselves ill-equipped to manage the process to a successful outcome. Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager ties together a process that everyone can use for project work, as it is for all levels of an organization. One great takeaway from the book is, You must clarify a shared and measurable set of expectations. Without this, a project has little chance of success, because projects are really all about people and their expectations.

Bonnie Stone, Centralized Learning and Development Manager for the Central Arizona Project

In todays environment, managers need to lead and complete difficult and multiple projects with limited resources. Authors Kogon, Blakemore, and Wood outline down-to-earth examples and techniques, essential to be successful in this day and age.

Michael Fung, former CFO of Walmart U.S.

In an era where collaboration is key, where everyone has a real job to do, in addition to the projects that they are a part of, this book may actually save lives or certainly improve them! People are pulled in so many directions that this book enables the project manager to be highly organized and build authority and credibility. A well-organized project manager is a gift to any organization and will surely deliver extraordinary results.

Kevin K. Cushing, former CEO of Alphagraphics Inc.

KORY KOGON,
SUZETTE BLAKEMORE,
AND JAMES WOOD

A FRANKLINCOVEY BOOK

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First e-book edition: April 2015

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kogon, Kory.

Project management for the unofficial project manager / Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, James Wood.

pages cm

Franklin Covey book.

ISBN 978-1-941631-10-2 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-941631-11-9 (electronic) 1. Project management. I. Title.

HD69.P75K657 2015

658.404dc23

2014040744

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THIS BOOK HAS THREE AUTHORS. Two of us, Suzette and Kory, are unofficial project managers. Weve been involved in projects throughout our careers, and were both accomplished and battle scarred. As successful as we were in our early careers at implementing marketing programs, rolling out learning programs, and managing a global installation of ISO 9000, we realize now that if we had just known how to apply a simple methodology to the work, we might have avoided a few scars. Fortunately, our projects turned out well, but not without a high degree of stress, unnecessary sacrifices, missed deadlines, re-work, and tears along the waymost of which we could have dodged had we known a few project management basics.

Now, as we research productivity in the twenty-first-century workplace, we realize that the methods and systems that official project managers use can fill an enormous skills gap for what has become the unofficial project management workforcebasically the vast majority of knowledge workers. Most knowledge workers are managing projects under the radareverything from micro-projects to extremely large macro-projectsand doing so by the seat of their pants! Because most knowledge workers are driven and talented, they push through pretty well despite a lack of project management skills, although, like us, not without a few scars. Lucky for us, business maven and certified Project Management Professional James Wood brought his official project management expertise to our research, helping us to distill the best ideas from that world and make them usable and practical for all of us regular people. As a result, weve taught thousands of unofficial project managers a basic method for project success, and now were sharing what weve learned with you.