A Reason You Cannot Get Good Workers for Your Projects
From the Eye on the Workforce Blog
by Joe Wynne
Workforce management is a key part of project success, but project managers often find it difficult to get trustworthy information on what really works. From interpersonal interactions to big workforce issues we'll look the latest research and proven techniques to find the most effective solutions for your projects.
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The Society for Human Resource Management is reporting (in a pdf) another workforce trend – actually a realization – that “organizational performance is tied to talent management and an evaluation of their knowledge, skills and abilities.” Exactly right.
Here’s a scenario: You obtain internal resources for your project as usual, but you can’t get the performance you have come to expect. Some workers seem to take a long time to submit intermediate deliverables. Others submit them on time, but the documents are not adequately completed. Teams seem to take long time to become productive. Team leads can’t fix team problems. Interaction between teams often leads to friction. Managers become defensive. It’s not like you’ve ever experienced.
What’s going on? Think about it. It’s a subtle change over time. I’ll post again tomorrow with an explanation and what you can do as a project manager.
Posted on: June 25, 2008 11:12 PM |
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 | Anonymous |
"...the performance you have come to expect" tells me that you have worked with these people before and that their previous performances met your expectations then. Perhaps you were even satisfied with the work they had done. So what happened in the meantime to decrease their performance? I'll be interested to hear what you have to say.
Mansoor Mustafa
Senior PM| Government Department
Rawalpindi Punjab, Pakistan
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