Chris Croft (author)
Chris Croft | |
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| Born | 12 February 1960 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
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| Known for | Project management, Time Management, and Happiness |
Notable work | Project Management Simplified (video course), Project Management Quickstart Guide (book) |
| Style | Interactive, humorous |
| Website | chriscroft.com |
Chris Croft (born 12 February 1960) is a British author, video-maker and public speaker.[1][2] He is the author of 16 books [3] and 60 video courses, which have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese and French.[4] He is known for teaching Project Management with a particular love of Gantt charts, and also for his interest in happiness.[5]
Early Life and Education
Chris Croft was born on 12 February 1960 to Christopher Croft, an English Captain (naval) and commodoreand, and Brit Croft, a norwegian. He was brought up in Hampshire and attended Durlston Court School as a boarder from the age of 8, followed by Sherborne School and then University of Cambridge where he studied Engineering at Queens' College, Cambridge. Later he took an MBA.
Career
Chris Croft is based in Poole, England. His first job was at Westland Helicopters in Yeovil where he was a technologist apprentice, then a Production Engineer, and moved into management, He then worked as operations manager at DRG in Bristol, Corvus in Cwmbran, and Dolphin Packaging in Poole. He then moved to Bournemouth University as a lecturer in operations management, before beginning his self employed career in 1997.[6][7]
Since then he has run 3000 courses and trained over 87,000 people face to face.[8] He has also been writing and recording video courses for linkedin learning (originally Lynda.com) [9] and Udemy [10] where he has a total of 60 courses, 20,000 views a day, and 15 million views in total. He is one of the top authors on linkedin learning, mainly for Project Management, and one of the best selling management authors on udemy.com – particularly for Negotiation,[11][10][12][13][14] Leadership [15][16][13] and Sales [17][18] but also Time Management,[8][19][20][13] Assertiveness [21] Careers [22] and Happiness.[23][9]
Chris Croft has created many unique ideas and models, particularly his Five Options For When You Don’t Have Enough Time,[24] his three additions to the important/urgent matrix, his spiral graph of Achievement, Stress and Quality of Life, his Gantt of Gantts for viewing multiple projects at once his six career options and his six lifestyles illustrated by six animals, his model of management style based on combinations of Monitoring and Support,[25] and his Jobs To Do app which has sliders for size and fun as well as urgency and importance.[26] His Project Management Quickstart Guide[27] contains new ideas on the definition of Schedule Performance Index, how to calculate the optimum level of contingency, and why it’s important to use both network diagrams and Gantt charts in conjunction when planning a project.
Most of his books are self published but Time Management was published originally by Routledge in 1996, now Cengage Learning, and Project Management Quickstart Guide is published by ClydeBank Media (2022).[28]
Other work
In 2020 he founded the World Happiness Project with Gerry Clarke.[29][5]
In 2021 he began a project to give his video courses for free to local schools as a careers planning resource and to help young people prepare for the world of work.[30]
In 2021 he began work on Mr Gantt, a unique software-based approach to running projects at the same time as learning about project management, using the software and the embedded videos.[31]
References
- ↑ "Chris Croft". BigSpeak Motivational Speakers Bureau: Keynote Speakers, Business Speakers and Celebrity Speakers. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ Collins, Victoria. "The Vistage Speaker Awards". blog.vistage.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "Chris Croft". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "Chris has been translated to all of these languages". Chris Croft Training. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "World Happiness Project". Linkedin.
- ↑ "#21 "How to Get Your Business in the Top 10% of Your Industry" w/ Chris Croft - One of the Top Selling and Most Viewed Authors on Udemy by Famous Founder Stories with Chris Brodhead". Anchor. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "The Global Sales Leader hosted by - Jasoncooper.io The Sales Relationship Coach: Success strategies in conversation with Chris Croft Part 2 Global Sales Leader Part 2 Episode 34 on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Leaders, Industry (2021-05-10). "Chris Croft, Author and Speaker, Chris Croft Training Limited". The Industry Leaders. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "The 10 Most Popular Online Courses of the Year". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "The 5 Best Negotiation Courses for Any Situation". E-Student. 2022-09-17. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "Aidan Booth -". thegrowthbooth.com.
- ↑ "Negotiation Skills". Listenable. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 "Chris Croft | Highbrow". gohighbrow.com. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "10 Best Online Negotiation Courses in Canada [2022 UPDATED]". Securite Allergie. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ Monkhouse, Dominic (2021-01-19). "The Importance of Vision, Systems & People with Chris Croft". Monkhouse & Company. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "Chris Croft - "If you force people to work, they'll stop working."". Evolve. 2020-09-07. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "Discover your Sales Talent - Chris Croft". Selling with Love Podcast. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "The 8 Best Courses to Boost Your Sales Skills". Learning Nest. 2021-10-19. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ Croft, Chris. "10 Ways to Improve Your Time Management Skills". www.skillcast.com. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ chidiO. "505: Time Management: Life Is Long, Here's How To Get Your Time Back | Chris Croft – Conquer Local". Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ Croft, Chris (2015-06-23). "Learning to be assertive: Finding the balance between aggressive and submissive behaviour". Personnel Today. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ ""Engineer does meaning of life": Meet the Dorset man who's one of the world's favourite trainers". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "What I've Learned - Chris Croft". Evolve. 2022-05-30. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ Mundo, Ida del (2017-06-02). "162: The Only 5 Ways to Get More Done with Chris Croft". How to be Awesome at Your Job. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "Jana Levit on LinkedIn: #leadership". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "Jobs To Do 2020". AppStore. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ Croft, Chris (1996). Time Management. Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-1-86152-224-5.
- ↑ "Read or Listen to Chris Croft Books and Audiobooks". Scribd. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "Who We Are – World Happiness Project". Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "How to master your life: World-renowned trainer shares his knowledge with schools". Bournemouth Echo. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
- ↑ "Mr Gantt - Project Management Software With Inbuilt Coaching". www.mrgantt.com. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
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