Hi, thank you for joining me. We're here to talk about project teams leading change. And what this is going to involve is applying some of the basic principles of leading change, right to your project plans, and your project teams. My name is Chris edge Hello, that's a picture of me in my office. I'm with two organizations Sundance consulting, which is of course a consulting firm and a publishing company called last week press. Over the last three decades, I've spent time helping people and organizations change kind of global client base that includes all three sectors, government, not for profit and of course corporate threat.

At that time, I've worked with hundreds of executives all kinds of project teams and thousands and thousands of managers. And the common theme that really connects all of my work together is something fairly significant is changing. Usually, it's many significant things changing simultaneously. And it's not necessarily going according to plan for the graduate degree in applied behavioral sciences that focused on systems leadership and change, and that's afforded me a good grounding in all of the basic theory around to change and systems, projects, etc. I've written numerous articles, booklets, workbooks, and so on, and publish them through my publishing company that share my own ideas around project management and leading change. I pulled some resources together for you to get the most out of this course.

First one, I want you to have a hard copy of all the slides that'll save you from taking notes. If there's any theory to this work, there. It is. those slides you can download those and print them off. I've also pulled together some worksheets. Now, these are actual tools that throughout the program, I will simply ask you to stop the program, apply the ideas that we're talking about to your particular situation.

Also put in an article that I wrote a while ago called effective project teams, you'll find that helpful. I also like you to consider a resource that will help you get the absolute most out of this course. And that would be colleagues in your organization. It would be ideal if you could take this course with your entire project team. back if you could have all the project teams in your organization take this, you would then all be on the same page with some of these ideas around making your projects more successful. And of course, that would end up with things getting better.

The objectives for our time together are relatively straightforward. I want to deepen our understanding of what really is required to flesh out A much more effective project team by using an integrated systems based approach to leading change. So that's really what we're about. We're going to explore in some depth seven essentials to ensure project management. And those seven essentials are the most critical dimensions of leading change that applied directly to projects and project management. And throughout our time together, we're going to develop a plan to increase the effectiveness of your project team, and all project management in your changing organization.

So that's what we're going to do. Thank you for joining me. Let's get to work.