HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP

*** Award-Winning Finalist in the 'Best New Business Book' category of The 2012 USA Best Book Awards & Honorable Mention in the 2012 New England Book Festival. ***

SEDUCE STAKEHOLDERS.

As an experienced internal HR consultant, project manager, program manager, change manager, or change agent, you are responsible for implementing strategic change in your organization. How to create support and buy-in for the organizational change that you want to achieve? How to deal with resistance to change?

“HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP” offers you five new and inspiring strategies to convince people to change. Discover how you can start “seducing” the client, internal users, and other stakeholders into change by SPOMPing your project. Learn how you can:

S - use office politics for effective stakeholder management
P - plan and design internal communications to influence people
O - organize influence to let the steering committee work for you
M - use project marketing to sell your change ideas
P - prove potential project success with KPIs

A SPOMPed project means a successful organizational change, an effective implementation, a shorter project duration, more enthusiastic project team members, and for you as an internal professional an even more successful image within your organization.

“Finally a book that not only tells you how important engagement is, but also shows you how to actually create it. Highly recommended.” — B. Johnson, PMP, Chicago
“Down-to-earth insights that will definitely change the way you deliver change. Invaluable for every human resources professional!” — E. Garzi, Philadelphia
“A refreshing and inspiring view on the project called change!” — J. Harris, Chicago
“It’s indeed not about the methodology, but about people and how to influence them.” — H. Tallis, Winchester, UK
“A must read for every modern internal HR project manager, program manager, or portfolio manager who wants to achieve change!” — L. Wallowski, Philadelphia
“Excellent book on integrating project management and change management.” — J. Peters, Richmond

*** Strategic Project Management SPOMP is also available for Finance, IT, Marketing and Communications, Legal and Compliance, Human Resources, and other internal staff professionals (search “SeduceStakeholders”). Companion website offers free executive summaries.

*** Leon M. Hielkema, MBA, is an award-winning author with more than 15 years of international experience in developing, executing, and evaluating strategic change projects.  He has successfully coached many internal professionals over the years and is a featured speaker and trainer.  With this book, he gives new, refreshing insights on how to successfully effect change in complex organizations.