Developing "new" or "old" project managers

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Alina Florea Management Performance Coach| Alina Florea Coaching | alinaflorea.net Bucuresti, Romania

What is according to your experience the most often topic you coach / mentor your peers project managers and how do you do that?

Posted: Apr 4, 2016 4:25 PM

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Phil Jacklin Founder| OnTheSamePage (www.onthesamepage.io) Wellington, New Zealand

Apr 20, 2016 6:21 PM

Replying to Stéphane Parent

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Interesting, Phil. I have always been told the opposite: mentoring is about guiding and directing someone along their path(s) while coaching is about providing tools and techniques to fix immediate, short-term problems. I firmly believe that both have a place in helping people.

I heard a funny take on the fish vs fishing adage: "Give a man a match and he is warm for a day. Set the man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life!"

I guess whichever way round the coaching/mentoring definition is, we're both agreeing on the same thing. Better to equip project managers with tools rather than defined answers to a list of situations.

Posted: Apr 21, 2016 3:21 PM

Stéphane Parent Retired (for now)| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada

Absolutely, Phil! I found David Rock's "Quiet Leadership" an invaluable book to get us in helping people think through their problems and find their own solution.

Posted: Apr 21, 2016 4:38 PM

Malhar Vishwarupe Associate Manager| Harsco India Services Pvt Ltd Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Though methodical and process oriented approach is essential, to much emphasis on processes may kill creative/innovative thinking about project management. There will be nothing like new or old, as project management is continuously evolving. Old managers invent a approach to PM, which new managers adopt, and we call it new management style. I emphasise on approach of calculated experimenting to make processes better. There is no harm in teaching it to new project manager once he reach certain maturity level.

Posted: Apr 21, 2016 11:49 PM

RMA GOYAL PM Consultant| Self Fl, United States

I consider myself as New Era PM with inclination towards old and tested methodologies. For example, I am still so comfortable with waterfall approach, especially for ERP projects, that whenever I have to deal with Agile, I have to workout an extra hour to release the stress!!! Just felt like sharing the stress with my co-PMs :)

Posted: Apr 22, 2016 3:04 PM

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