Five Ways to Make or Break Your Team

  PM Network  

They’re probably not going to come right out and tell you, but there are certain things about working for you that your team members really don’t like. Take all those meetings you think are so vital to corporate strategy. Let’s just say your team members see them differently. And those sudden changes in project plans you pass along at the very last minute? Well, they have some choice words about those, too.

Whatever the issue, project managers need to pay attention to their team’s concerns and figure out a response—or face the consequences. Here are five of the more common complaints, along with some tips on how to avoid an uprising.

1. Out of control Meetings

Team members are called into yet another meeting—just like yesterday. Only the PowerPoint slides have changed. And here’s the truly twisted part: Most of these mandatory meetings only have tenuous links to the deliverables people could be working on if they weren’t being held captive.

Give the people what they want—nothing more, nothing less. Keep team meetings targeted and stick to the point.

Project managers should go in armed with a clear idea of what the meeting is actually about—and what’s in it for the attendees, says Kelly Doyen, PMP, project lead, research and analytics at retail chain Best Buy, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

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