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Gird Your Loins for Battle to Protect Your Project Team
Joe Wynne is a versatile Project Manager experienced in delivering medium-scope projects in large organizations that improve workforce performance and business processes. He has a proven track record of delivering effective, technology-savvy solutions in a variety of industries and a unique combination of strengths in both process management and workforce management.
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Not sure how to gird? Are you worried about being embarrassed if you have to point to your loins? Well, perhaps this terminology of war is a few hundred years out of fashion. But it is as true as it ever was: Your project (and its staff) will likely be in battle at some point. There are plenty of reasons why, among them:
- High-level management wants to review your progress with an eye toward reallocating resources
- Departments that support your project resist working with one or more of your project staff
- Key individuals in your organization attempt to stifle some of your project activities
- Stakeholders begin to ask "too many" questions.
During times in a hostile environment, assume your role as field general, interacting with the troops as well as leaders of the opposing forces. Keep your soldiers motivated and do what is necessary to maintain your group's position.
Areas of Conflict
Your project team can cause its own problems in several ways. One common way is for one or more employees to appear to be too aggressive. They may offend an employee in another department with "strong arm" methods to gather information, or your people may refuse to participate …
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