In the present economic context, managers often enjoy a high degree of freedom. All that’s asked of them is to reach the goals set by their own management. They receive relatively few indications as to what they should do, and even their goals are not always very well-defined.
Therefore it will be useful for managers to learn how to deal with their professional activities in the most independent way possible. By dealing with these activities as professional projects (examples), they mitigate the risks of a breakdown into individual operations of their management and increase the chances for the global steering of their activities to be successful.
Project management thus represents a flexible management tool for structuring one’s professional activity, even within companies the organization of which is chaotic, destabilized, or simply ill-designed. Depending on the context, however, it presupposes the presence of certain criteria for managerial success (examples).
SELF-COACHING
The aim of this self-coaching sheet (exercises) is to help you endorse or strengthen your role as a project leader, as well as assess its feasibility in your professional context.
Annex to exercise 3:
These exercises are taken from chapters 15 and 16 of the book “Management by Coaching: Coping with Complexity in a Changing World”.
