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Sneaky Leadership
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.
The Good News: You understand a successful project requires specific leadership interventions.
The Bad News: Your organizational leaders do not.
The Worse News: Even if they did, their efforts may be feeble.
This is a serious situation, but there is a solution using a standard project management process, with special leadership management tactics.
What Today’s Workforce Demands
This problem is driven by today’s workforce demand that leaders do their job like everyone else. Workers want leaders who are visibly involved with projects, or they will simply lower their energy on the work, and increasingly go somewhere else. To avoid the costs of low performance and churning human resources, leaders must be active in the project management process.
This does not mean micromanagement by any means--in fact that is worse. It means that leaders must communicate certain messages at certain times in the project. It means they must be visible in other cases.
How to Get the Leadership You Need
If you need leadership, and it is not forthcoming, then your new job is to manage the planning and execution of the interventions. Every project is unique, but two examples will illustrate how to achieve different interventions.
Sanjeet & the Giant Project
Sanjeet is planning a large software development and deployment project in a …
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