Clint Padgett
Clint Padgett

The Team Building Book That Turns Conversations Into Commitments—and Commitments Into Results

In How Teams Triumph, Clinton M. Padgett reveals how meaningful communication drives team accountability, improves project outcomes, and strengthens collaboration in any environment.

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How Teams Triumph®: Managing by Commitment is a people-centric look at the inefficient ways internal teams operate and why projects so often miss deadlines or exceed budgets. The problem–as diagnosed in Padgett’s book–is one of communication. Specifically, Padgett examines the lack of effective conversations taking place to support projects at every stage.

With the help of this guidebook, you will learn how to nurture interpersonal relationships that foster accountability and prepare for the unknown, even during periods of volatility. The approach delivers needed results whether your teams are in-person or dispersed around the globe.

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“At its core, conversation is really about leveraging different perspectives. It is about strengthening ideas with each volley. Imagine if we could foster an abundance of mini rebuttals but harness the energy in a productive, healthy, and unifying way. If we could only get (and keep) everyone rowing in the same direction. In a sense that is what Clint and the team at PSI have accomplished with this fascinating new book, How Teams Triumph.

By facilitating continuous conversations, the process shifts the worry curve to identify and address problems much earlier in the project cycle than ever before. It starts with guided conversations, firm handoffs, and solid commitments. The approach then monitors and maintains control as the project evolves, and it consistently drives everyone toward a common goal. After thousands of projects and millions of lines of Gantt charts, we are confident there is no better methodology out there than PSI’s Project Success Method, and it continues to exceed all expectations.”

―GEORGE HATZILIAS, GM, ENGENT Division, HB Fuller, Inc.

 

“The Project Success Method is one of the most effective methodologies I found in my twenty-six-year corporate career to help teams achieve high performance and collaborate well together. It allows you to focus critical resources where they can have the most impact and allows you to shift often-needed resources when necessary from noncritical tasks to critical ones to help the overall team deliver on time. Individual team members become much more effective when they understand how their performance impacts the overall team.”

―BRIAN POSTIN, Retired Vice President of Engineering, The GSI Group

 

The Project Success Method.

“Authority and responsibility are not often considered together yet they are inter-dependent and both need to be considered when defining the project managers role. Assigning responsibility for a project without a corresponding degree of authority is as bad as delegating authority without responsibility yet far too often project managers are saddled with the responsibility of a project without thought to their authority. How Teams Triumph: Managing By Commitment by Clinton M. Padgett offers excellent insights to both project managers who have been given responsibility for a project and project sponsors who assign project managers to projects.

By ‘taking what’s already working on your teams, the principles detailed in How Teams Triumph help your people maximize performance by enhancing communication; breaking down silos; and providing a proven, repeatable framework to complete projects with all stakeholders pulling in the same direction’ makes this book essential reading. Highly recommended.”

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" Project Management broken down"

“How Teams Triumph by Clinton M. Padgett is an insightful book that delves into the nitty gritty of project management, project managers, project delegators, their roles, the processes that make and break a project being delivered successfully, and the tried and tested framework of making project management a sustainably successful task.

Simply taking on a project and delegating tasks to team members is not enough. There is a process to be followed, communications and conversations to be had, and responsibilities to be tied to authority and certain level of autonomy. This book breaks down project management to its bare essentials and then builds it up again with a comprehensive and all encompassing framework that considers every little aspect that goes into making every deliverable a successful and sustainable one.”

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"Practical Roadmap"

“If there is one thing every organization desires, it would be success. But aside from the materialistic side of the equation, the largest driving force behind any venture is the people working for and running it. In Clinton M. Padgett’s How teams Triumph: Managing by Commitment, he lays out the key things necessary to ensure an organization flourishes, namely the people behind it.
Divided into distinct and easy to follow sections, the book provides valuable information quickly and accessibly. In particular, the Project Success method detailed in the book is brilliant and can be applied to any team no matter the level of organization.
Overall, the book is an incredibly helpful and insightful guide in making one’s team achieve full potential and be the best possible.”

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"Everybody looking to hone their team management skills should definitely give it a try."

“Team management has become extremely crucial these days owing to the work environment and increasing competition. Although it is important and required in almost every kind of workspace there is not much reliable and practical information available about it. This book by Clint Padgett is a lot different though. He himself is the CEO of Project Success Inc. This clearly reflects in this book and the tactics given in it.

The book clearly defines the impact efficient teamwork has on the success of any organization. The language is intelligible and all the techniques given are practical. Through this book, I realized how misunderstood managing teamwork is and how it can be easily managed if known the right techniques. Everybody looking to hone their team management skills should definitely give it a try.”

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