Building Leadership in Project and Network Management: A Facilitator's Tool Set

ISBN-13: 9783662519080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 284 str.

Hans-Werner Franz; D. Andrea; R. Gabriel

Opis

This resource provides a rich set of tools and methods to successfully implement leadership in project/network management. It is ideal for people who want to know and share better what they are going to do and do better what they have planned to do together.

Spis treści

Messages for facilitators and lateral leaders.- The functions and roles of network facilitators.- Moderation as a role.- Visualisation — why and how it helps you to understand and remember.- Basic concepts of perception and communication.- Basic concepts of learning and competence.- The concept of responsibility.- Basic concepts of organisation and co-operation.- Basic concepts of management and leadership.- Communities of practice and self-organisation.- Basic concepts of knowledge and knowledge management.- Project work as a work style.- The nature of quality: continuous improvement, continuous learning.- Basic concepts of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).- Basic concepts of networks and clusters.- Learning networks - constructing social capital.- Reminder – Konrad Lorenz dixit.- Didactics and curriculum.- Making learning easy – facilitation and the didactics of action learning.- A curriculum of action learning - the modules.- Tools.- Improving Communication.- Collecting information.- Planning and managing projects.- Analysing problems and preparing decision making.- Growing experience — from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence.- The SME ACTor project experience.- e-Facilitating networking in distance co-operation contexts.

Blurb

This book builds a bridge between facilitation techniques and leadership in project and network management. It provides methodical Messages, a Facilitator Curriculum, and the wealth of 40 carefully selected and reality-proof Tools, many of which have not been published at all or at least never been published in English. The reader will benefit as much from learning by doing as from doing by learning; this book is for managers who in some way are responsible for successful co-operation in projects in and across organisations or networks of organisations, and who want to know and share better what they are going to do and to do better what they have planned to do together. It is a practical book, although it is based on scientific principles, and it draws on the authors` experience in consultancy and management.

All ready-for-use tools can be downloaded from the book´s page at www.springer.com/978-3-540-93955-9

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Hans-Werner Franz is a senior researcher and consultant as well as a member of the Management Board at the Social Research Centre (Sozialforschungsstelle) at Dortmund University of Technology, Germany. His well established track record includes total quality management, organisation development, and vocational training.

Ruggiera Sarcina is a senior researcher and consultant, collaborating with the Italian Chambers of Commerce in Italy and abroad. Her focus is on projects dealing with local development policies, cluster development, and innovation and internationalisation of  small and medium-sized enterprises.