Leading the Project

It is not just the tools and analysis that leads to successful improvement projects - as mentioned in the overview, success in improvement projects is based on three elements:

3 elements in success in improvement projects

Achieving this comes from project leadership This section covers that aspect and includes materials covering three areas:

Project Management - a summary of the key project management tools. This includes:
- Managing Improvement Projects - a summary of how to structure an improvement project into stages and use those stages to manage the whole project.
- Projects Five Keys to Success - a brief overview of the project management approach
Team Leadership - the ability to get the project team working well together. For this we have introduced some of the key concepts of team leadership that are particularly relevant to leading a team on an improvement project. They are:
- How Team Develop - the four stages that teams go through as they develop and start to perform well
- Adair Leadership Model - one of the pioneering models that forms the basis of military leadership training
- Leadership Styles - the four styles of leadership commonly used for different situations
- Team Roles - the different types of roles that people tend to fulfil in teamwork, based on the work by Meridith Belbin
- Tips for Leading a Team - thirteen practical tips.
Briefs - two briefs that readers may find useful when starting a project team. They are:
- Brief for identifying Projects to tackle.
- Brief for Tackling a Project - in particular in starting a team