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Wasting Experienced Project Newcomers: A Dr. Phil Episode (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.
In the last article, you were on the Dr. Phil show, preparing to regale the audience with stories of your project management prowess, when it turned ugly. You were actually on "Confront Your Manager Day." A group of workers from your previous project had arranged this ambush. Dr. Phil showed video evidence that you had missed signals given by professionally experienced project newcomers. These signals were evidently supposed to trigger you to coach the workers in some fashion.
Oh, by the way, the audience is now against you.
"Confront Your Manager Day" (continued)
Dr. Phil: Let's bring in the poor team leads we saw in the clips.
(Audience applauds)
Team Lead 1 and 2: Thanks Dr. Phil.
Dr. Phil: Tell us about how hard it was for you.
Team Lead 1 (tears welling eyes): It was so hard. I wasn't sure about anything.
Team Lead 2 (dejectedly): Suddenly I couldn't do anything right.
Audience (tears welling in eyes): Awww.
Dr. Phil: Hadn't you done similar work successfully in previous projects?
Team Lead 1 and 2 (self-righteously): Of course!
Team Lead 1: I was hired from another company because of my success in the past in the same kind of project! It just didn't appear that the transition issues I had were any type of priority in this project.
Audience (to each other): That's awful! Can you believe it? I hate it when that happens.…
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