Get Participants to Sing at Your Post Mortem (Part 2 of 3)

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.

  Lessons Learned  

• The post mortem can be much improved by appropriately facilitating a discussion of workforce management issues
• There are key workforce management systems out of your direct control, to which your only recourse is to influence--albeit in a powerful way--those who can resolve the issues in those systems.

Prepare to Maximize Your Power
Power to effect changes where others have control comes from identifying the function or process at issue and showing conclusively how it is detrimental to the success of the project. Despite appearances to the contrary, HR--the organization must likely in control of these processes--hates to be detrimental to the process. Sure, you may have to force an HRIS down their throat, but they love it once they get used to it. Here are ways to prepare your case.

Show Negative Impact
Collect information that identifies symptoms of unwanted workforce impacts, and then eliminate as many causative factors that you can. Link the remaining causative factors to problems with meeting deadlines, budget constraints and…

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