Consultant| Canarys Automation LtdBangalore, Karnataka, India
In today's fast-paced, ever-changing project environments, resilience within project teams is becoming increasingly important. How do you foster resilience to ensure teams can handle setbacks and still deliver? What strategies have worked for you in building a resilient team that can navigate challenges and uncertainties while maintaining project momentum? Please share your insights and experiences. Saving Changes...
Online Community Specialist| PMINewtown Square, Pa, United States
Hello Ashwin – this is a very important topic among project managers. Here are a few articles/blogs that may resonate with fellow colleagues in the community to continue further conversation. Thanks for posting!
Building resilient teams is crucial for project success. As a Project Manager, you can use several strategies:
* Foster collaboration, inclusion, and empathy, to build positive work relationships.
* Engage the team with a sense of purpose, practicing the pursuit of meaningful goals and objectives. Don't forget in addition that these expectations should be realistic and reachable.
*Develop honest communication between team members, that will help to handle problems and challenges better.
*Prioritize self-care of your team, taking into account work-life balance.
* Promote flexibility strategies that allow the team to adapt to changes, solve new challenges, overcome setbacks, and focus on solutions. Saving Changes...
Head of Cloud Software & Services| Ericsson EMEAVictoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
Resilience is built based on the challenges encountered over time.
The workable strategy for me is enabling collaboration and team bonding among the team as a Project Manager through the following;
Setting the purpose and direction for the team
Support/ Empower the team to achieve assigned tasks
Track performance and share feedback for the purpose of improvement
Demonstrate empathy when required irrespective of the situation
Communicate and Engage on issues, and motivate them to work on joint resolution Saving Changes...
Mike FrenetteManager, IT PMO| Halifax Water (retired)Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Hi Ashwin,
Transparency, collaboration, and being available to the team whenever needed are, to me, aspects of building a resilient team, coupled with ensuring everyone knows the "why" of what they are doing and how it links to the bigger picture.
Whenever there is a change in direction, explaining to the team the reasoning behind it and providing an opportunity for discussion the provision of input about how to deal with it are also key aspects of maintaining a resilient team. Saving Changes...
Head of International Project Management Office| Deutsche TelekomPraha, Czechia
I could not agree more with what stated above. Motivation is a key aspect as well and in analysing it, we have to consider that each of us, therefore also each team member, is motivated by completely different things. Trying to understand the key motivators and also the different personalities of the team members can help in this journey. Saving Changes...
Consultant| Canarys Automation LtdBangalore, Karnataka, India
Sep 25, 2024 10:01 AM
Replying to Kimberly Whitby
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Hello Ashwin – this is a very important topic among project managers. Here are a few articles/blogs that may resonate with fellow colleagues in the community to continue further conversation. Thanks for posting!
Consultant| Canarys Automation LtdBangalore, Karnataka, India
Thank you all for sharing such valuable insights! I completely agree that building resilience requires a combination of empathy, collaboration, and clear communication. It’s interesting to see the emphasis on motivation and understanding individual drivers within the team. I believe a key aspect here is continuously adapting as both the team and project evolve. Encouraging open discussions about challenges and involving the team in problem-solving strengthens their resilience. Saving Changes...
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