for that introduction I’ve been coming
for about 22 years and I have words on
the sort of fantastic infrastructure
projects and I’m going to give you a
little bit of a talk about my experience
not so much as see the pictures for me
for 10 minutes add a little bit about
managing projects and the future of
managing projects but forgive me I’m
going to use cue cards and that was big
it’s a lot of assists without nuclear
industry now people say when you’re
presenting you should know your audience
and it’s not a surprise to me where my
paper inculcating where the surprise is
one I think because my experience of
TEDx is that they are purposeful
insightful inspirational talks by
subject matter experts so why you
might’ve got pretty possibly learn
me and he preparing for Tanaka question
took me a lot of time to think about but
I was also recently talking to my father
he was over here for a long time at
Christmas
and one of our conversations as many
about conversations do consider
supporting us and the state of the
nation and in his case the states have
really began talking to my father was
fascinated because he has a lot of
generational views that are very
different
but they helped me think about an
audience that is largely a younger
generation and I could be bringing to
you why I could talk about what would be
useful to give the younger generation so
I want to speak about something that the
may be helpful to you in your future
first thing what do I know well the
second thing about presenting to people
is speak to what they know don’t don’t
wait for them anyway drop the message
you get far home when I learned that
from bitter experience when I was
presenting to let Joe rather select
committee a couple years ago that’s
whenever their sale messages demonstrate
too far
so what I’m going to talk about projects
and managing projects are hopefully the
future of managing products now
management is often spoken about as the
art of getting things done through
people and in my time inaudible such a
fantastic project with some fascinating
and very diverse teams teams may look
very very different people
and at some point in your working life
the generation in here you make working
projects the project that seems products
environments or regions of project
manager and at that point you’re gonna
have to interact with a whole range of
people and people in addition believe me
people can be very very digital but
before I get and we digress the main
area does not have life now we’re seeing
a bigger return to traditional ways of
doing today’s digital sales are
outstripping violent be readers are not
selling and both
precision so I’m wondering if it’s a
little too much of a stretch to imagine
that have social workers they’re going
to get a little less than a little
person after all most of you here the
younger generation will have a huge
social media presence and have you as
you move on to college sorts about how
your social media presence is going to
present you as a person this isn’t a
representative water sample it believes
in your respective zone and further than
that into the workplace
not only does it represent you to your
future and employable and I know is in
every player that I check people social
media to see what sort of a person they
can abilities but will it help you build
relationships now you may have may use
social media to build in the military or
friendships at the moment but having
consummate how this is going to help you
get things done for us as civilian
management is the artist getting things
going through people but in my
experience if people understand and you
understand the perspectives of people
you have to work you live the life they
don’t have to be friends we have to work
and if you learn to trust
to understand that police and that
protected you end up with a better
result now how is it my desire meeting
this morning as I have every Wednesday
morning and my team was all there and I
recall a couple of years ago after
watching you children there’s an old man
to watch it there was a talk on YouTube
about a lack of social interaction in
the workplace so that watch this video
are going to work the next day my
entities are meeting but before the
meeting started and I remember thinking
what a missed opportunity to build a
relationship with the people that they
have to work for the next two or three
years probably having a great time
chatting to someone 10 – ten thousand
miles or people they really like to want
to spend their time on but they have to
work with the people in the room and
this is where they’re back to very
caught when I was much younger
screaming at a colleague who committed
me to something I knew nothing about but
in hindsight it was a that was a mistake
builds on a mature
how to deal with people to learn the
sound that aesthetics and why they do
certain things in certain ways
now all these it is later than my
experience I know that most people go
today intending to do a good job but
their version of a good job is strained
very differently because of their
upbringing that clincher their beliefs
their background that perspective but if
you don’t interact with people you don’t
understand these things
mix therefore they’re mostly difficult
to work with to get them to do the
things you need them to do
now in project management these days
we’ve talked a lot of alignment everyone
working towards common goals and common
objectives but those many years ago we
did not so as you would as you start if
you take notice you can become more
aware of how others live how they frame
them how they approach when you can
choose to accelerate that interest by
taking an active interest in people and
here you have four students in our
family you meet advantage because you
packed in with 7 million culturally
socially ethnically diverse people we
have a microcosm with the whole world
here and if you can understand the world
backgrounds and perspectives when you go
out into the world that you only know
because focus is how they should operate
and you think of free sharing there but
it’s something that’s all around you in
this school right now in your immediate
environment and you could start to use
it to your advantage as I said earlier
of unfortunate
fantastic chronicles with some fantastic
people
about a hospital single-handedly but
over five years have bottom means the
builders and the designers and I got to
know he would be an administrator and
the doctors and the nurses and the
government employees who are responsible
for spending that we work on and the
administrators have a client and all of
these people want to do a good job they
wanted a project to be a success but
success to them as strange slightly
differently they all have a different
idea were successful I designed two
major refurbishment out of the air we
had to have every single office to this
use design customs immigration pull out
the police and they all came at it with
a different perspective
they all wanted it to be a big job but
an evolution a good job was very
different and only by understanding all
these things will be able to make the
project to success for all of them now
project management if sellers are fairly
in the profession and there’s a lot of
guidance about project management and
how to deliver the projects within time
and budget that are required quality
which is the circle line
and be able to some of the social and
environmental aspects stakeholder
management risk management and the life
there are lots of Association by the
member to their Twitter feeds there are
all sorts of information and advice on
how to manage projects but given the
importance of understanding people
working with people of different beliefs
as perspectives
this is right it’s a little coverage in
the association’s bodies of knowledge a
few years ago I was reviewing the
standard the societal standards review
committee so the right sock somewhere
everybody became suggested we’re putting
tiny servants for anyone working on
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perspectives but I made that appointment
quite forces and the reason I was able
to make that work is because of the
relationships that I’ve built on one of
the projects with a particular consort
who introduced into that organization
and then helped me to get involved in
getting involved in that organize
actually building relations
– has helped me a lot of affection that
helped me the way I look and the way the
dynamics Providence so I will urge in
whatever field you choose to invest some
time in the people realism and I mean
really the only people immediately
around you not 6,000 miles that’s that
because if you are investing time in
people and understanding their
perspectives you’re more far the likely
to get a good alcohol through someone
you have that real relationship with
someone you trust
it’s a skill that’s gonna serve you well
in the future and this is where I get
back to where I dig rest at five six
minutes ago and we made reference to the
future project management title of the
short tour because in the future there
will be a lot of projects and they will
be managed by people and those
strategies will be managed better by you
if you understand the people and the
perspectives of those people and the
believers and the reasons that they
approach projects in a different way now
I don’t know if your social media
friendships will remain in you to do
that in the right way can I do whether
just to think about it because you are
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