10 Ways to Be a Lucky Leader
Elizabeth is a freelance writer and project manager living and working in London. She runs The Otobos Group, a project communications consultancy specializing in project management.
Are you feeling lucky? Some projects simply seem to go well, and others are plagued with problems, regardless of how much you try to put out the fires. In my experience, the luckiest project managers are also the ones who spend the most time on risk management. And that’s good, because it means you too can be a lucky leader.
Here are some easy risk management tips to boost your luckiness…
1. Involve the team
Risk management needs the whole team in order to work. Make sure everyone understands the risk management process and the fact that they can identify and flag risks at any point. Lucky leaders talk about how risk is going to be managed at the beginning of a project so that everyone is clear on how the process is going to work.
When you have team meetings, listen out for challenges that sound like they could be risks and ask colleagues if that is a risk to delivery. Informal chats are a great way to find out what is keeping people up at night and what team leaders are most worried about.
2. Schedule risk reviews
Put regular risk reviews in the diary. I’ve done this in multiple ways:
- Just me and the PMO analyst, and then we follow up individually afterward with risk owners on the activities that should be happening
- With the business owner, where most of the risks fall into one business area
- As a full project team, with all risk …
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