New Year, New You?

Craig is based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and has worked with ProjectManagement.com for the last six years developing the various HEADWAY processes (Project, Change and Portfolio). He has hosted a series of webinars and is a business intelligence subject matter expert.

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So the New Year is upon me. It is time for me to give thanks for the year that was and begin to lay down my plans for 2011. Like many, I have a habit of setting resolutions that fall by the wayside within a month or two, or sometimes less. Those resolutions very much focus on how I will treat myself, such as “I will exercise more” or “I will lose 15 pounds” or “I will read more books.” This year, I think I will try something a little different. I am not only going to pick a few resolutions for my personal self (“I will run more this year!”), but also resolutions for my professional, project management self. These resolutions are the things that I will do differently and that will have an impact on my project teams, and the people I engage with on projects. The following is a list of resolutions I am putting forward and will think about in the coming days, weeks and months…

1. I resolve to set clear expectations for my team. I will clearly define and communicate the project expectations to members of my team. In my eyes, one of the greatest steps a project manager can take to ensure the success of any project is to set clear expectations with the team--both collectively and for each individual team member. Collectively, we need to understand the objectives of the project, the deliverables we will be creating, the …

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