Successful project managers must engage and motivate others to achieve complex goals. Ruth Pearce shows how behavior, language, and attitudes affect engagement and how leveraging character strengths can help improve relationships, increase innovation, and build higher-functioning teams. This focus on character strengths--such as bravery, curiosity, fairness, gratitude, and humor--can help project managers recognize and cultivate the things that are best in themselves and others.

Many project managers do not have the authority to direct the activities of people on their teams--they can only influence them. The most influential people succeed by focusing less on themselves and their message and more on others. They pay attention, they are brave, they are vulnerable, they are curious, and they look for and acknowledge the things that are important about and to the other person. And they model the behavior that they want to see. This book tells you how.

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Meet the Author

Ruth Pearce, JD, PCC, PMP

Ruth Pearce is a dynamic speaker, coach, author, and facilitator with a passion for helping individuals and teams flourish through the intentional use of character strengths. As President of Pearce Insights, she leads transformational learning experiences that integrate coaching, positive psychology, and neuroscience to spark sustainable growth.

With a professional background that spans law, economics, project management, and mediation, Ruth brings an interdisciplinary lens to every engagement. Her diverse expertise allows her to connect deeply with professionals across sectors—especially those in leadership, coaching, and change management roles.

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