Project Management Leadership Practices

Project Success the Nordic Way
Camilla Brenchley
Leading Partner at Norscat

Camilla Brenchley. Norscat: Leading the Nordic Way. www.norscat.com
Objectives
•
leadership and provide a better climate for your team
• Deliver better results: How you can provide better
leadership and improve team performance

Why listen to me?
• 10+ years PM experience.
•
• I help companies improve their performance through
implementation of Nordic Leadership Practices.

Classic PM Problems
Project
priorities?
MVP
Feature
priorities?
Time lines /
features / budget
Translating /
Communication
Who thinks
this project is
important?
Different
department
objectives

What do they have in common?
• Lack of one common goal in the organisation.
Departments seem to have different priorities and go
in different directions.
• Clarity on the organisational direction and priorities.
Not being clearly informed about company direction
and priorities makes your job hard.

Giving directions and communicating them
effectively to the people in the organisation
Leadership
• Defining a direction: Mission, Vision and Values
• Working towards one common goal: ensures aligned messages.
We all have the same overall objective.
• Making the direction relevant to everybody by putting their job into context.
• Continuously communicating direction and priorities by Informing about why we
make the decisions we make.

P E R F O R M A N C E
Clarity of
direction
C U L T U R E
C L I M A T E
Autonomy
Involvement Challenge
Organisation
Change
orientation
Recognition
Processes
Leadership

We improve performance
• The people in the organisation are able to identify what is important. This
allows them to prioritise their work in accordance with company priorities.
We increase their efficiency.
• Collaboration across departments improve. Less time spent on conflicts
and rework.
• People are more motivated and engaged. They give more of themselves.

CLIMATE
CULTURA
PERFORMANCE

Lead your manager
• Investigate company strategy and direction. Make sure you know and are
informed of organisational priorities. Make sure these are relevant to you, ie
that they are translated into tangible targets, values and objectives for your
department.
Explain to your manager why you feel this is important.
• Make sure you know how your project and each element within it, fits into the
company direction.
Again, make sure this is transmitted to you in a way that is relevant to the
project.
Ask questions! Ask WHY 5 times!
• Prompt department misalignment (if your company culture welcomes it)

Deliver Better Results
• Make sure company direction, priorities and values are relevant to your
team. Make sure you live these in your daily work.
Responsibility
We always take ownership of the
tasks we work on. This means that
we have to constantly develop our
skills, continually challenge the way
we work and learn from our
mistakes.
• To not be the bottleneck.
• To be prepared at a meeting with the client.
• To be honest about challenges and not be afraid to
ask for help.
• To give the client and ourselves a realistic
timeframe, and speak up if we can't make it.
• When we show engagement and take initiative.
• To contribute to a great working environment.
• Ensure that I test my solution before handing it over
to someone else.
• To point out if we are not doing things in the best
possible way.

Deliver Better Results
• Make sure you share project objectives with your project team.
Translate the objectives into tangible objectives for each individual.
• Make sure your department or project success can be clearly measured. Install one
main success KPI and 5 secondary. Is maintaining budget the most important? Or
quality?
• Tell each team member why their position and contribution is important. Make
them see how they contribute to the organisational direction and objectives.
• Give your team tools to make decisions by telling them why you make the decisions
you make. Show them how you keep organisational values and direction in mind.

• By giving directions
• By communicating them
effectively

Norscat.com
• Consultancy: 3 months to improve your performance by 10%.
• Workshops: 3 days to ensure a joined up senior team with
one common goal.
• Coaching: Helping any leader improve team performance.
Norscat makes companies successful
through Nordic leadership practices.

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