APM People Specific Interest Group

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About us

The SIG’s vision is of ‘inspired and inspiring project managers’. Our mission is to:

• Raise awareness and encourage debate around the people aspects of project management
• Awaken appetite and influence opinion about the nature of project management
• Offer thought pieces and insights to inspire project managers.

Communication further reading

The Lens Collective

The Lens Collective: A guide to seeing different perspectives in project management

Communication exercises

These are some exercises which you can use to develop or reinforce communications in your teams. Instructions for each exercise can be found in the PDFs below.

Exercise 1 - 85 year-old woman ploughs into shop

This video clip forms the basis for experiential learning. The exercise engages participants in experiencing mis-direction and poor observation by both the sender and receiver who interpret messages using their different knowledge bases and past experiences.

Communication models

Below are some models, which you can use to develop or reinforce communications in your teams.

1) Why don't they listen

This mind map, created by Tim Lyons, explores the behavioural, personal and transactional elements of the individual words of “Why don’t they listen” giving insights into the where problems or issues might lie. You may use this to model to analyse and problem solve, for personal learning or team development.

Communication videos

This section provides video clips from individuals who participated in the ‘Why Don’t They Listen’ workshop run by the People SIG.

Each participant was asked:

Their name,
In less than 1 minute, describe what communications in a project means to them,
Describe communication in one word.

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Communication

"Communication is the means by which information or instructions are exchanged. Successful communication occurs when the received meaning is the same as the transmitted meaning." APM Body of Knowledge

There is real evidence that suggests that often project failure can be attributed to ineffective communication. The People SIG invested in exploring communications in the project context. Our aim is to provide insights to share.

Assets

Our People SIG assets provide:

Collateral from experienced professionals
Content for every individual, team and organisation
Tools for development, stimulus, consolidation
Analysis and problem solving approaches
Valuable insights, stories and outputs
Freely accessible to all APM members

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Our People SIG library is a freely accessible resource for all APM members and provides:

Collateral from experienced professionals
Content for every individual, team and organisation
Tools for development, stimulus, consolidation
Analysis and problem solving approaches
Valuable insights, stories and outputs

For too long, there has been an emphasis on technical process as the solution to delivering successful projects. Our profession is awakening to the fact that successful projects are in fact delivered through people, working effectively as a team, engaging stakeholders and being inspired by top class project leaders.

Our aim is to lead the project management community forward in the areas of project and organisational culture, communication, structure, leadership and teamwork. We encourage relationships to be built through networking and educational events. People are then able to share knowledge, experience and insights, leading to the development of innovative approaches and best practice. This knowledge can then be disseminated throughout industry via the APM.

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