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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
What is the most challenging issue you faced in your professional life ?
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Getting ahead in certain organizations without having to play "bad" politics
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1 reply by Rashika A
Jun 23, 2018 11:19 PM
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Good One.
I Agree, it's always very difficult for me. I have been working as an Independent Contractor PM Role so it requires a lot of Positive Energy in Interpersonal & Team Building skills with Cultural and Political awareness in getting the Project Tasks completed and maintaining a peaceful atmosphere onsite.
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I think ethical issues as I was running projects overseas for so long, and in a culture of bribes and pay offs.
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Disruptive behaviors supported by leadership
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Rashika A Fremont, Ca, United States
Jun 23, 2018 5:51 PM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Getting ahead in certain organizations without having to play "bad" politics
Good One.
I Agree, it's always very difficult for me. I have been working as an Independent Contractor PM Role so it requires a lot of Positive Energy in Interpersonal & Team Building skills with Cultural and Political awareness in getting the Project Tasks completed and maintaining a peaceful atmosphere onsite.
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Kevin, I totally agree with our renowned Gurus Kiron,Sante, & Andrew on their points, There are lots of challenges but I'm gonna tell you most recent one they invite you to sit on a hiring panel as they have to because the recruit is for one member for your team and you've gone through all questions and matrix for two weeks and all voting shows that you and three of your team selected "X" person and not aligned with "Y" person where the recruiter is then the recruiter has a trump card to use at the end will tell you OK will do reference check then next week the bloody recruiter (even not the HR manager) tell you that the reference for X person not appealing but they wont tell you because of "confidentiality" then they continue that Y has good reference, will you be OK with Y, you can't face the whole gang the next day announcement letter circulate that Y has accepted the position, this is a complete Bollocks and hypocrisy wasting time and at the end they hire the one they want and all other applicants time and hope get wasted too. This is a rubbish sod off system
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1 reply by Anish Abraham
Jun 24, 2018 5:56 PM
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Riyadh, I had similar experience in the past, so I can understand the frustration.
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Tamer Zeyad Sadiq Assistant Cost Manager| Turner & Townsend Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Conflicts between client and the contractors and someting for ethical issues!!!
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Sonali Malu Maharashtra, India
1. Few leaders don't do planning at all. They will simply put a rough timeline at every milestone and it becomes headache to execution PMs.
2. Politics involved at different levels
3. Senior PMs overshadowing your work
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RAJESH K L Project Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Hi Drake, Challenges faced in professional life
a. Effective influencing to buy-in commitment from all stakeholders
b. conflicting priorities among stakeholders
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Justus N Scrum Master| BCBSTX Arlington, Tx, United States
Ethics and politics. Many organizations and project management professionals in big corporations have overlooked or forgotten what the pmi code of ethics is.
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Anish Abraham Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington Auburn, Wa, United States
Jun 23, 2018 11:51 PM
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Kevin, I totally agree with our renowned Gurus Kiron,Sante, & Andrew on their points, There are lots of challenges but I'm gonna tell you most recent one they invite you to sit on a hiring panel as they have to because the recruit is for one member for your team and you've gone through all questions and matrix for two weeks and all voting shows that you and three of your team selected "X" person and not aligned with "Y" person where the recruiter is then the recruiter has a trump card to use at the end will tell you OK will do reference check then next week the bloody recruiter (even not the HR manager) tell you that the reference for X person not appealing but they wont tell you because of "confidentiality" then they continue that Y has good reference, will you be OK with Y, you can't face the whole gang the next day announcement letter circulate that Y has accepted the position, this is a complete Bollocks and hypocrisy wasting time and at the end they hire the one they want and all other applicants time and hope get wasted too. This is a rubbish sod off system
Riyadh, I had similar experience in the past, so I can understand the frustration.
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1 reply by Riyadh Salih
Jun 24, 2018 9:03 PM
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Yes Anish, it is indeed
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