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Chris Croft

Chris Croft (born February 12, 1960) is a British author, video-maker and public speaker. (43) (44) (45) He is the author of 16 books (3) and 60 video courses (1)(21) which have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese and French (5). He is known for teaching Project Management with a particular love of Gantt charts (42), and also for his interest in happiness (13) (23) (24).
Early Life and Education
Chris has a Norwegian mother, Brit, and an English father, also called Christopher. His father was a naval Commodore. Chris was brought up in Hampshire and attended Durlston Court school as a boarder from the age of 8, followed by Sherborne School and then Cambridge University where he studied Engineering at Queens’ College. Later he took an MBA. He is married to Sally Croft and has one daughter, Louise, and one son Miles.
Career
Chris Croft is based in Poole, Dorset, UK. His first job was at Westland Helicopters in Yeovil where he was a technologist apprentice, then a Production Engineer, and Production Manager. He then worked as operations manager at DRG in Bristol, Corvus (KAB Seating) in Cwmbran, and Dolphin Packaging in Poole. He then moved to Bournemouth University as a lecturer in operations management, before becoming self employed in 1997. (17) (20)
Chris has worked as a trainer, mainly in the UK, since 1997. He has also been writing books and recording video courses for Linkedin Learning (originally Lynda.com) (21) (35) (36) and for Udemy (1) (36). He is mainly known on Linkedin Learning for Project Management, (10) (34) and on Udemy for Negotiation (18) (36) (37) (38) (39) (52) (54), Leadership (7) (16) (38) (51) (55), and Sales (15) (40) (52) but also on both platforms for Time Management (4) (14) (19) (38) (47), Assertiveness (2) Careers (6) and Happiness (12) (35).
Chris Croft has created the following unique ideas and models:
- Five Options When You Don’t Have Enough Time (8),
- three additions to the important/urgent matrix (50),
- Spiral graph of Achievement, Stress and Quality of Life (26),
- Gantt of Gantts for viewing multiple projects at once (27),
- Six career options (32)
- Six lifestyles illustrated by six animals (30),
- Model of management style based on combinations of Monitoring and Support (48) (49),
- Jobs To Do app which has sliders for size and fun as well as urgency and importance (28).
- His Project Management Quickstart Guide (29) contains new ideas on the definition of Schedule Performance Index (33), how to calculate the optimum level of contingency (33), and why it’s important to use both network diagrams and Gantt charts in conjunction when planning a project.
Time Management was published originally by Routledge in 1996, now Cengage Learning, with a second edition published in November 2024 (57), and Project Management Quickstart Guide is published by ClydeBank Media (2022).(11). His other books are self published.
Other work
In 2020 he founded the World Happiness Project with Gerry Clarke. (23) (24) (25)
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 (31) (46)
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. (22)
In 2023 he began filming other authors for Linkedin Learning, under the name CRFT Productions (56)
Selected Bibliography
Croft, Chris (1996) Time Management, Cengage Learning EMEA, ISBN 978-1861522245
Croft, Chris (2015) Leadership: Practical Leadership Skills, udemy.com (1)
Croft, Chris (2016) The Big Book of Happiness, lulu.com, ISBN 978-1326724047
Croft, Chris (2016) Efficient Time Management, Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2016) Successful Negotiation: Master Your Negotiating Skills, udemy.com (1)
Croft, Chris (2017) Management Vegetables, amazon.co.uk. ISBN 979-8840424704
Croft, Chris (2017) Handling Workplace Change as an Employee. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2017) Problem Solving Techniques. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2017) Happiness Tips. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2018) Leadership: Practical Skills. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2018) Life Mastery: Achieving Happiness and Success. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2018) Bad Boss: Dealing with a Difficult Manager. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2019) The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2019) Success Habits. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2019) Anxiety and Stress – Best Practices for Reducing Stress. Udemy.com (1)
Croft, Chris (2019) Customer Service Mastery: Delight Every Customer. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2019) Cost Reduction Tips – How To Cut Costs And Maximize Profits. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris, and Rose, Doug (2019) Comparing Agile versus Waterfall Project Management. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2020) Process Improvement Foundations. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2020) Project Management Simplified. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2020) Teamwork Foundations. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2020) Inspirational Leadership Skills: Practical Motivational Leadership. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2020) Planning Your Career and Your Life. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2020) Persecutors, Victims, and Rescuers: How to Deal with Psychological Games Players. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris Croft, Chris and Croft, Miles (2021) Your Sales Questions Answered, udemy.com
Croft, Chris (2021) Practical Influencing Techniques. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2021) Positive Self Talk – Affirmations & Mindset. Udemy.com (1)
Croft, Chris (2021) Negotiation Skills. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2021) Motivate Remote Teams. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2021) Managing Resources Across Project Teams. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2021) Project Management Simplified, Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2022) Project Management Quickstart Guide, ClydeBank Media, ISBN 978-1636100586
Croft, Chris (2022) How to Be a Better Boss. Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2023) How to Launch a Career in Project Management (with Bonnie Biafore)
Croft, Chris (2024) A.I. in Project Management (with Dave Birss)
Croft, Chris (2024) Time Management, Cengage, ISBN 978-1473796058
Croft, Chris (2025) Seven Paths to Happiness, Linkedin.com
Croft, Chris (2025) Pricing strategies for Maximum Profit, Linkedin.com
Official website
References
- Udemy – https://www.udemy.com/user/chriscroft3/
- Personnel Today – https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/learning-assertiveness-finding-the-balance-between-aggressive-and-submissive-behaviour/
- Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/Chris-Croft/e/B001HQ4LR4%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
- Industry Leaders – https://www.theindustryleaders.org/post/chris-croft-author-and-speaker-chris-croft-training-limited
- Chris Croft https://www.chriscroft.co.uk/chris-has-been-translated-to-all-of-these-languages/
- Darren Slade, Bournemouth Echo https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20017928.trainer-chris-croft-courses-project-management-careers-life-mastery/
- Dominic Monkhouse – https://www.monkhouseandcompany.com/podcast/the-importance-of-vision-systems-people-with-chris-croft/
- Pete Mockaitis – https://awesomeatyourjob.com/162-the-only-5-ways-to-get-more-done-with-chris-croft/
- Pete Mockaitis – https://awesomeatyourjob.com/650-boosting-happiness-at-work-ten-tips-from-chris-croft/
- Jose Maria Delos Santos – https://project-management.com/chris-croft-a-youtube-channel-review/
- Scribd – https://www.scribd.com/author/616860186/Chris-Croft
- Oliver Roberts – https://evolvemembers.com/inspiration/what-ive-learned-chris-croft/
- Everipedia – https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/chris-croft
- Chris Croft, Skillcast – https://www.skillcast.com/blog/10-ways-improve-time-management-skills
- Jason Campbell – https://www.sellingwithlove.com/discover-your-sales-talent-chris-croft/
- Warren Munson – https://evolvemembers.com/podcast/chris-croft-if-you-force-people-to-work-theyll-stop-working/
- Chris Brodhead – https://anchor.fm/anxiousfilmmaker/episodes/Quickie-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-euirg9
- Aidan Booth – https://thegrowthbooth.com/podcast/episode-9-negotiation-secrets-5-simple-steps-to-getting-a-better-deal-every-time/
- George Leith – https://www.conquerlocal.com/podcast/time-management-life-is-long-heres-how-to-get-your-time-back/
- Jason Cooper – https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/success-strategies-in-conversation-with-chris-croft/id1524596524?i=1000538954895
- Linkedin Learning – https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/chris-croft
- Mr Gantt – http://mrgantt.com
- World Happiness Project: https://www.world-happiness-project.com/who-we-are/
- World Happiness Project: https://www.linkedin.com/company/38082422/
- World Happiness Project: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPbBkOGte5I-8cfsoPruh2w
- Stress Spiral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAqy8p9jA9Y&t=505s
- Gantt of Gantts: https://youtu.be/PpMhiFimIsE
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/jobs-to-do-2017/id1289937523
- Croft, Chris (1996) Time Management, Cengage Learning EMEA, ISBN 978-1861522245
- Croft, Chris – The six Animals: https://www.chriscroft.co.uk/why-there-are-only-six-animals/
- ITV News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68hviW4KX_Y
- Six Possible Careers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3-MEgEYGUY
- Croft, Chris, Youtube: Project Management Myths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygNsAhTFDw0&list=PLlfV2nonf8lUA6LCR3K6Qf5tJacXEqbjf&index=12
- Croft, Chris, Youtube: Project Management in under 8 minutes: 830,000 views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkuUBcmmBpk&list=PLlfV2nonf8lUA6LCR3K6Qf5tJacXEqbjf&index=2
- Linkedin – number 6 course: https://www.linkedin.com/business/learning/blog/new-courses/the-10-most-popular-online-courses-of-the-year
- https://www.udemy.com/topic/leadership/
- Listenable: https://listenable.io/web/courses/11/negotiation-skills/
- Highbrow: https://gohighbrow.com/team/chris-croft/
- Securite Allergie – Best online negotiating courses in Canada – https://www.securite-allergie.ca/best-online-courses-to-learn-negotiation/
- Learning nest – best sales course for beginners: https://learningnest.com/best-sales-skills-courses/
- Project Management .com – recommended provider – https://project-management.com/project-management-videos-youtube-channels/
- Chris Croft, Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIAiWc2O0XI
- Big Speak – https://www.bigspeak.com/speakers/chris-croft/
- Parliament Speakers – http://www.parliamentspeakers.com/Speaker/Chris+Croft
- Vistage – Long Term Achievement Award – https://blog.vistage.co.uk/the-vistage-speaker-awards-
- Darren Slade, Bournemouth Echo – https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/19757631.trainer-chris-croft-shares-courses-schools-free/
- Nexus Leaders: https://nexusleaders.co.uk/speakers/
- Jana Levit, Linkedin, https://www.linkedin.com/posts/janawray_leadership-activity-6983963827323240448-VTVy
- Croft, Chris, Youtube https://youtu.be/HS1i7I0Ca1o
- Croft, Chris, Youtube https://youtu.be/1cVABDK5nKc
- https://www.classcentral.com/report/best-leadership-courses/
- https://www.classcentral.com/report/best-sales-courses/
- https://www.classcentral.com/report/best-negotiation-courses/
- E-Student: Best crash Course, AND Best Bargaining course https://e-student.org/best-negotiation-courses/
- https://www.udemy.com/topic/leadership/
- https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/crft-productions
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Management-Chris-Croft/