Optimizing High-Performance Teams
A Project Manager Guide
about the book
A Project Manager Guide
2026 New York Book Festival – Honorable Mention (Business)*
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Optimizing High-Performance Teams provides a standards-based approach to successfully managing programs and projects. Organized around the project life cycle, this book takes readers on a journey of optimizing high performance teams from program inception to program closure. A clear roadmap is provided, allowing readers to focus on key topics, practical tips, and standard templates that best meet their needs. This guide helps readers:
A Project Manager Guide
- Conduct an assessment to develop a personalized roadmap
- Set up and maintain an effective program management office
- Implement leading practices for business development
- Recruit effectively for rapid resource onboarding
- Optimize high-performance teams
- Understand tactical approaches to data migration and system development
- Communicate more effectively with customers and stakeholders
- Manage scope creep
- Execute technical projects successfully
- Consolidate essential tips and techniques for managing projects and programs
- Identify most useful project tools and templates
Whether launching a new program, stabilizing a troubled initiative, or refining an established portfolio, Optimizing High-Performing Teams equips leaders with standards-aligned, actionable strategies to achieve measurable improvements in delivery, quality, and team effectiveness.
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Reader’s Favorite Audiobook Reviewer “… I listened to the audiobook narrated by Lani Boschulte, Leila Boschulte, and Stephen T. Boschulte, and the narration was immensely useful and thoroughly enjoyable thanks to the quality and flawless audio production. I liked how the alternating narrators, including the author, kept me interested and engaged from start to end. I also appreciated the pace and clarity – they were just right for the complexity and coverage depth. All in all, it is a stellar audio production of a stellar book. I highly recommend it to business owners, senior and mid-level business executives, project and human resource managers, business management students, and anyone interested in what is involved in running projects in a company and how to do it successfully and efficiently.”
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For more information about the author, visit his website at: https://stephentboschulte.com/
Optimizing High-Performance Teams: A Project Manager Guide
* “Less than five percent of entries ever are honored with a placement” in the New York Book Festival according to the organizers.
Advanced Reader Copy Program Feedback
(IT Program/Project Manager SME)
“This review took me back to through many points in my career. I have been part of just about every aspect of the Information Technology field. Thank you for the walk down memory lane (including the parts that were painful)!”
(Non-profit CEO)
“The information was great, it reinforced a lot of things I already knew and have practiced, but I also still managed to learn a lot of new things … from my perspective with running the nonprofit and starting a therapy practice there is a lot of practical application of this information into these areas. Project and program management is the same regardless of the field… another solid playbook!!”
(MBA – Finance)
“I’ve done what I thought was “manage a project” but clearly nowhere near to the level this book lays out. I loved that you talked about getting key people and what that looks like… it gets you thinking about things you wouldn’t consider especially in pre planning stages … the general concepts could be applied to planning for anything really.”
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