Situation: You are a new project manager hire and...
Phil BristolCEO| Projectivity SolutionsSacramento, Ca, United States
What actions do you take when these are the dominate questions your team seems to keep asking
• How can I get ahead?
• How can I look good?
• How can I get away with doing…..?
• How can I get away with not doing…..?
• How can I get even?
• How can I do as little as possible?
• How can I be impressive?
• How can I get someone else to do this for me?
• How can I get the boss to like me?
• How can I look better than everyone around me?
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I think the only valid question a team member should genuinely be asking is the first one "How can I go ahead?" All other questions are counter-productive to the project. As a project manager I need to motivate the team not to work against each other or to create a competition but to work together towards the project goals. My team needs to know the project objectives and how they can achieve them. All their efforts must be focused towards achievement of that goal. All other questions are noise and they must be made known not to matter. Saving Changes...
I think the only valid question a team member should genuinely be asking is the first one "How can I go ahead?" All other questions are counter-productive to the project. As a project manager I need to motivate the team not to work against each other or to create a competition but to work together towards the project goals. My team needs to know the project objectives and how they can achieve them. All their efforts must be focused towards achievement of that goal. All other questions are noise and they must be made known not to matter. Saving Changes...
Th situation is loaded with a lot of emphasis on "I". This definitely not in the interest of the project or program or any organizational change initiative.
The reason is the above initiatives involves multidisciplinary skills,knowledge, experience and so a team effort.
Under such situation, individual needs are not the main goal. Organizational benefits are of prime importance and so every effort should be directed towards achieving the KPIs identified for the project or program and ensure alignment with organization strategy.
Then aligneach individual needs, if possible wishes , to aid or support in achieving the project or program goals. This takes a lot of disciplinedand mature behavior and understanfing of each team member Saving Changes...
