New Project, New People, New Problems?

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

  Communications Management   Leadership   Talent Management  

Got yourself a new project? Congratulations. Got any idea as to who you are going to have working with you?

If you’re fortunate enough to have a say in the team that gets selected to work on the project, then you have your work cut out for you (this is in addition to all the other tasks you have before the kickoff). Of course, this assumes that you have expertise both in the field of the deliverable as well as strong skills in reviewing professional credentials.

So yeah, no pressure…

Short-term, Long-term
You need talented individuals--people that have the knowledge to work on a particular technical project and have sufficient mastery over the specific components essential to its successful delivery. It may be as simple as developing a candidate proficiency checklist and verifying the truthfulness of each entry through interview or testing, but there are many ways to check qualifications and skill level before you hire someone and get hip deep in tasks.

That being said, when you are choosing people, you don’t always need people who are “the best” at what they do--particularly if your budget won’t allow it. However, you do need to ascertain your “must-have” list of specific traits needed to fulfill the requirements of the project.

A cautionary note, too: Don’t let the glitter of the items in a résum&…

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