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Project leaders face unique challenges with team members who work remotely, report to other managers and balance responsibilities to other projects. In that environment, strengthening communication, boosting motivation and reducing conflict is essential. Here are tips to improve your team dynamic from a Dale Carnegie Training executive.
Project managers can always use tips to “win friends and influence people,” so ProjectsAtWorkinvited David Fagiano, chief operating officer of Dale Carnegie Training, to share his best team-building ideas.
Dale Carnegie’s seminal 1937 book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” focuses on people skills and still informs the seminars offered today by the Hauppauge, N.Y.-based company. Dale Carnegie Training has more than 2,700 instructors serving the business community worldwide. In fact, approximately 7 million people have received training.
More than a few of those have been project managers. Indeed, Fagiano recognizes that you face unique personnel management challenges that include working with team members remotely, managing others who are not direct reports and helping others balance responsibilities to various projects. In that environment, strengthening communication, boosting motivation and reducing conflict is essential, he says. Here are tips to