Today I want to share with you how to lead a team and how to stimulate teamwork to achieve project goals during the project.
This is the basic ability that a qualified project manager should possess. Contemporary projects have long esteemed individual heroism. An excellent project team not only needs an excellent project manager to lead, but also requires a group of outstanding team members to actively cooperate to achieve project goals together. Therefore, the more responsibility of the project manager is to stimulate the advantages of the project team and promote the efficient and stable operation of the project team.
In many domestic enterprises, many people are "learning and optimistic." I am also the same, because many of the project's main process has been done in the project team, so it is logical to be pushed into the project management position.
When I just became a project manager, I was exhausted ...
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As a technical background, I was still ignorant at that time, but I felt that I had the power to drive, and I would have some pride if I didn't realize it. With the development of the project, there are huge difficulties in project management .
First of all, because of the same rank and similar technical level, several colleagues who joined in the same period were extremely difficult in arranging and arranging tasks, and even appeared to be picking fat and neglecting their work, which caused me headaches.
Then there is the huge gap between the customer and other functional teams and the project team, which makes the project subject to people in many ways, and it is difficult to progress.
Finally, it is the most exhausting thing for me : I deal with many things with my own hands every day. There are endless meetings every day, and even I need to deal with some very specific code tasks.
Although the project proceeded relatively smoothly, it also achieved relatively good results. But the whole project came down, the project team did not have the tacit cooperation as I thought, and even some functional teams were dissatisfied with the project team. The most serious thing is that I feel very tired. This is very different from my understanding of the project manager.
Four reflections after the ups and downs
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Reflecting on my first project, I am not a qualified project manager. I have not been able to reasonably use project resources and management methods, nor have I been able to unite everyone to do a good job in the project. Project, work content involves all aspects of the project. In fact, some mistakes made by novice project managers are easy to make:
First, in the initial stage of the project, the management objectives of the project are very unclear. I thought that the completion of the project in the process of the project was the most important. Did you know that the difference between the project members and the project manager is very large? Multi-management work is more important than technical work.
Second, always use the form of orders to drive the project team to carry out related work, and use a unified way to deal with the project team and related stakeholders. Ignore the personalization of people.
Third, everything is done by hand. Although his technical ability is better, but he neglects the field of project management, he needs to be transformed into a manager and a leader. Teacher Fan Deng said that the so-called leader is to let others do things for you, so although you have strong ability, you must also find a way for the project staff to do the thing instead of doing it yourself. If so, the project members will not have Feeling of being, you will be exhausted physically and mentally.
Fourth, the importance of many people and organizations related to the project is ignored, so that the relationship between the project team and these people, even the stakeholders and the stakeholders is also slightly strained, creating some for the project and the project team Hinder.
Practical thinking of advanced managers
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In fact, the research and summary of project management and project manager capabilities in PMBOK, as well as the leadership team's achievement of goals, have a clear and profound understanding. These understandings not only stay at the methodological level, but also include some best practices.
As early as 2017, PMI defined the project manager talent triangle for project managers and described it in detail in the sixth edition of PMBOK. The three sides of the triangle are: technical project management capabilities, leadership, and strategic and business management.
Technical project management capabilities are knowledge, skills, and behaviors that guide specific areas of project, program, and portfolio management; leadership skills include the ability to guide, motivate, and lead the team; strategic and business management skills include an overview of the organization and effective negotiation and Ability to execute decisions and actions that are conducive to strategic adjustment and innovation. In addition, the project manager should be good at building teams. Building a team is the process of improving work abilities, promoting team member interaction, and improving the overall team atmosphere to improve project performance.
Based on the understanding and application of the above ability model, now I may pay more attention to the role of people in the project in the project management work. These roles are not only to efficiently complete the project's established work, but also include People's influence on other aspects of the project, such as team morale, helping and developing others. For example, a technical rehearsal job is required in the project. This kind of work often has no actual output, and it is a boring and risky activity.
From the perspective of staffing, this kind of work does not necessarily need to be done by the best technical colleagues in the team. Often, we need the younger comrades who are eager for knowledge and recognition. In this way, not only can solve difficult problems in the project, but also ensure that the progress of other transactions in the project is not affected.
As another example, when the team reaches a small goal, it is necessary to recognize the team members' efforts in a timely manner. At the same time, it is also necessary to point out deficiencies and improve suggestions. As a project manager, we are serving the project team, not the initiator of the project. In the project, we must also work hard to promote the relationship between the parties involved, usually, it is "to see people talk to people, see ghosts talk to ghosts".
In addition, now more businesses and project managers a respected leadership called servant leadership .
Servant leadership focuses on understanding and paying attention to the needs and development of team members, and aims to achieve the highest performance of the team. Servant leadership focuses on removing obstacles for the team, creating an atmosphere for the team, allowing the team to do its best, and encouraging the organization to think in different ways. Now it has become the mainstream idea of project managers.
Today's Highlights
▼ Common misunderstandings of novice taking team:
1. At the initial stage of the project, the management objectives of the project are very unclear.
2. Always use the form of orders to drive the project team to carry out related work, and deal with related parties inside and outside the project team in a unified manner. Ignore the personalization of people.
3. Everything is done by hand. Although his technical ability is better, he ignores the role and needs to be transformed into a manager and leader.
4. Ignore the role and influence of many internal and external stakeholders related to the project.
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