With project success rates not shifting significantly over the last 15 years there has to be a better way. People-centric project management is a simpler, more natural, more human, and ultimately more successful way to understand projects.

1. The Project
is
The People

2. Project Success Rates

3. What do project managers do mostly each day?

4. Project Management Hard Skills
Scheduling
Estimation
Scope Management
Risk analysis
Controls
Procuring
Quality Management

5. The Project LeaderProject Management Soft Skills
Communication
Emotional Intelligence
Collaboration
Negotiation
Leadership
Coaching
Conflict Resolution

6. How do project
managers get the
work on projects
done?

7. Interpersonal competence, self-
awareness and social awareness are
better predictors of who will succeed
and who won’t.
A 2006 study by Accenture of 251 executives in six countries
concluded that while intelligence is important for career success, it’s a
matter of how you are smart.

8. “Communication skills are always No.1 in these
surveys (among the most important selection
criteria used by employers) and we consistently get
this kind of issue”
Grattan Institute analyst published in The Australian June 3, 2015

9. Project
Management
hard skills
are like the
3 R’s

10. No. 1 reason people quite their jobs is
because of their manager – recent Randstad
Survey
What was it about the best boss you ever
had?

11. Evolution of organisations
100,000
yrs ago
10,000
yrs ago
1,000
yrs ago
100
yrs ago
10
yrs ago
Tribal
Formal hierarcies
Management brains/
Workers hands
Workers are People
Self-
management
Today
Consciousness/Empowerment

12. “The Australia of the future has to be a nation that is agile, that is
innovative, that is creative.”
“We have to recognise that the disruption that we see driven by
technology, the volatility in change is our friend if we are agile and smart
enough to take advantage of it.”

14. Empowerment
Culture
Community
Services
Outcome focused
Creativity
Opportunity
Collaboration
EngagementCoaching
Lean
Wholeness
People
Environment
Customers
Agile
Purpose
SenseandRespond
Teams
ServantLeadership
Awareness
Learning

15. Its the People Stupid!

16. How To Apply People-Centric Project Management?
Soft skills training and coaching program
Training of contractors
Merger of project management and change
management
Implement people-centric principles,
processes, systems
Project Managers are people too!

17. I Don’t Follow A Methodology…
I Am The Methodology!

18. The Project Leader
The Project Leader
Providing people-centric project management
through principles, processes, and systems that
really improve performance.
Michael Gipters
Reach me at: www.theprojectleader.com