Email sent! Please check your inbox for the download link.

Those of you who subscribe to my newsletter will know that I have been working on an ebook about Imposter Syndrome over the summer. I’ll be launching it next week, and in the meantime I thought you might like to find out more about Imposter Syndrome.

You can get a free report, 5 Symptoms of Imposter Syndrome, here. It’s a short read, and hopefully it will give you a couple of pointers of what to look out for in either yourself or your colleagues.

Download your free copy now!

Downloading the report will subscribe you to news about my new ebook, Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Ten Strategies to Stop Feeling Like a Fraud at Work. I’ll send you an email next week about the launch of the book but you won’t get hundreds of message and your details won’t be passed to anyone else. If you don’t want to receive updates, just unsubscribe.

Find out more about the book at OvercomingImposterSyndrome.com

A note on downloading the report

There are a few other free ebooks and reports you can download from my blog. A couple of people have got in touch to say they haven’t received the email with the link to the report in. Once you have entered your email address and clicked ‘Download Now’, the ‘Download Now’ button is replaced by a green tick and a message that says you’ve been sent an email. The email will come from ‘WordPress’ (wordpress@ pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com) with the title ‘Here’s the link to download your document’. Please check your spam filter as your email may have ended up there. If you don’t receive anything, or have any other problems, please email me and I’ll send you a copy myself.

Related posts:

1. 5 Symptoms of Imposter Syndrome: free report This short report looks at the 5 symptoms of Imposter Syndrome. Download your free copy now! Name: This field is required. Email: This field is...
2. What is Imposter Syndrome? This is an extract from Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Ten Strategies to Stop Feeling Like a Fraud at Work. This new ebook launches next week and...
3. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: the launch! Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Ten Strategies to Stop Feeling Like a Fraud at Work is available from today! Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Ten Strategies to Stop Feeling...

And the winners are… Lee Choon-Heng from Malaysia and Kevin McDaniel from Kansas, United States.

Congratulations, your copies of Employees First, Customers Second by Vineet Nayar are in the post.

This is what they won:

Employees First, Customers Second is an easy-to-read story of how Vineet Nayar turned around the fortunes of IT services firm HCL Technologies. The book centres on Nayar’s strategies to make life better for employees in ‘the value zone’ – those customer-facing staff who really have the opportunity to make a difference to customers. By empowering staff, customers benefit, and the office of the CEO prioritised staff engagement before customer initiatives.

This all started because the IT services market changed and Nayar needed to ensure his company remained competitive. “CIOs were expected to deliver faster, cheaper, and better processes that could help the companies differentiate themselves from their competitors and achieve the desired competitive advantage,” he writes.

One of the key things he did was improve the level of trust in the organisation between all levels of employees. This was a difficult thing to achieve. Although he wasn’t facing distrust, his staff were perhaps ambivalent when it came to trusting management. He writes:

“Over the past decade, we have seen many business executives and managers who have lied and stolen and betrayed the trust of their people and their companies. The distrust of people in positions of authority and power extends into every walk of life. The trust quotient, therefore, particularly regarding business leadership, is at an all-time low around the world…if your organization has more than a couple of hundred people in it, most of them don’t know you. You know that you are trustworthy, but they do not. I believe that your personal trust quotient is lower than you think it is – probably quite a bit lower.”

HCLT did some drastic things, like allowing any member of staff to provide 360 degree feedback on managers. This had an interesting side effect. The lower the amount if responses, the less influential the manager was. The work he or she carried out didn’t impact many people. The managerial team started to see that it was not their zone of control – how many people they managed – that mattered, but their zone of influence – how far that reach was felt.

Why are these ideas relevant to project managers? They aren’t going to help you build a schedule or a WBS. However I strongly believe in getting inspiration and new ideas from other areas of management literature. The ideas of trust building, feedback and effective communication are relevant to what you do. If you only stay in the project management arena you miss out on a lot. What have you read recently that has sparked an new thought or idea?

Missed out on the giveaway? Buy the book on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

Related posts:

1. Giveaway: Employees First, Customers Second I love getting parcels. The lovely people at Harvard Business Press have given me two copies of Vineet Nayar’s book, Employees First, Customers Second, to...
2. Giveaway winners! And the names are out of the hat. The winners are: Samantha from Essex Stephen from Cheshire Veronica from Johannesburg Isobel from Leeds Jessica from...
3. Giveaway winners for November Last month I had great giveaways. Trish from Calgary and Scott from Minnesota both won copies of the Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less...

I love getting parcels. The lovely people at Harvard Business Press have given me two copies of Vineet Nayar’s book, Employees First, Customers Second, to give away.

The book talks about a transformation project that took Nayar’s company from struggling to being one of the fastest growing IT services companies in the world. I haven’t finished reading the book yet (I’ll post a review when I have) but a lot of the philosophy resonates with me and my 4 pillars of leadership: openness, honesty, trust and integrity.

If you’d like to be in with a chance of winning a copy of Nayar’s book, use the contact form to drop me a line or leave a comment below with the message, “I’m an employee and I’m first.”

The giveaway closes on Monday 24 October, so be quick!

Good luck!

Related posts:

1. Giveaway winners and review: Employees First, Customers Second And the winners are… Lee Choon-Heng from Malaysia and Kevin McDaniel from Kansas, United States. Congratulations, your copies of Employees First, Customers Second by Vineet...
2. Giveaway reminder: PM Crash Course It’s not too late to be in with a chance of winning PM Crash Course: Premier Edition by Rita Mulchay. If you would like to...
3. Giveaway: The Power of Slow Would you like to slow down and get more done?  I have a copy of Christine Louise Hohlbaum’s book, The Power of Slow, 101 Ways...

Last month’s giveaway was a copy of A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management by Penny Pullan and Ruth Murray-Webster.

The winner was Fiona, from Dorset in the UK. Congratulations!

If you weren’t lucky this time and still want a copy of the book you can buy it on Amazon.

There’s another great book giveaway coming next month, so watch this space…

Related posts:

1. Giveaway: A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management If you enjoyed my interview with Penny Pullan, co-author of A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management, on Friday, you’ll want to enter this giveaway....
2. Giveaway winner! Congratulations to Norma from Northumberland who’s name was first out of the hat for the copy of Rita Mulchay’s book PM Crash Course. Norma, your...
3. Fun Works giveaway – closing date has passed Thanks for all the entries to win a copy of Leslie Yerkes’s book Fun Works: creating places where people love to work. This giveaway is...

If you enjoyed my interview with Penny Pullan, co-author of A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management, on Friday, you’ll want to enter this giveaway.

I have a copy of the book, which Penny wrote with Ruth Murray-Webster, to give away.

There are two ways to enter:

1. Leave a comment below. Remember to complete your email address or I won’t be able to get in touch if you win. Your email address won’t be published.
2. Tweet me with the hashtag #facilitatingrisk. Tweet “@pm4girls I’m #facilitatingrisk”. If you want to say something else in your tweet, that’s fine! Just remember to include the hashtag so I know to enter you in the draw. This is the first time I’ve tried a giveaway with a Twitter element, so let’s see how it goes.

If you want to read more about the book before you enter the giveaway, you can read my review here.

The giveaway closes on Wednesday 17 August 2011, so get commenting and tweeting now!

Related posts:

1. Book Review: A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management Risk meetings don’t have to be boring, although in my experience they often are.  A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management is out this month,...
2. Penny Pullan talks about writing A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management In this video I talk to Penny Pullan, co-author of A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management. If you prefer to read a transcript, that...
3. Giveaway winner: Facilitating Risk Management Last month’s giveaway was a copy of A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management by Penny Pullan and Ruth Murray-Webster. The winner was Fiona, from...