are you getting ready to start your job as a project manager, and you want to
start it off on the right foot, well I'm gonna share with you some critical
things that you probably did not think about, and if you want to slay your
project, stay tuned to the end of this video, where I'm gonna give you a link,
where you can get a checklist on how to ensure your projects don't fail,
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when you're starting out as a project manager it is really important that you start it
off in the right way, I'm gonna give you 6 critical steps, for you, so that you can
do it, and be successful. Be an intentional project manager, okay, so what
do I mean by this, when you get into the role of project management it's exciting,
you're probably slightly nervous, but you don't want to just do for the sake of
doing, you really want to think about everything that you're doing, there has
to be intention in everything, and like the adage goes, sometimes it's best to be
slow first, in order for you to speed up, and that is what's really critical in
project management, so become an intentional project manager, everything
you do has intent, and purpose, just don't do things for the sake of doing them,
Study the players, all right, you want to get to know who you're dealing with, and
I mean everyone that you're dealing with, all the way from the top, so your project
sponsors, your steering committee, all the way to the bottom, and what I mean by
that is, your project team members, and people you are gonna be hanging around with
all the time, you really want to get to know who they are, what they're about,
this is where Team Dynamics comes in, and its really critical that you take a look
at it, who's the political player, who's the person who really doesn't want to be
there but is forced to be there, who's the keener, who's really quiet, by
understanding the players it allows for you to put a strategic plan together on
how to address them individually, because ultimately you want to get everybody on
board, because if everybody's on the same page, it's going to ensure that your
project is successful, Get to know your project, alright, this is where the why
becomes really important, why are you doing this project, were you told when
you were given the project the business case behind it, and all the really good
information, if you're lucky you were, but probably you were not, because
usually, when it comes to that, that means you would have gotten your scope
statement as well, it's really critical as a project manager, particularly when
you're, that's your role, and your job, and you're trying to get everybody on the
same page, understand the why, do your research, figure out what is the business
case behind this, but you understanding all the background nitty-gritty
information, it's gonna allow for you, when things pop up, to give people
direction, here's why we have to do it, it may not make sense to you, but if you
understand the bigger picture, there's very good clear reasoning, and direction,
for why we're doing it this way, so get to know the why, Set a vision for the
project, huh, your probably going what, what does visioning have to do with my
project, I have a scope statement, that's what I'm supposed to do, okay, this
becomes really interesting because you want to inspire your team, here's the
thing, people don't report to you, but they're reporting to the project, so how
do you motivate them, and if you set a vision for your project it really is a
great way to get your team together and to go that extra mile, so what is a
vision for a project, well it's your scope statement, because that's your
deliverable, and then you add some expectations to it, and then maybe some
desires with that as well, and you do this collectively as a team, it's kind of
like your beacon in the night, it's your guiding light, that, it's just gonna say,
here's why we're doing what we're doing, of course we're doing it because of the
scope statement, and the deliverables, but there's this extra stuff too that is
motivating us as well, and a really good example of this is, I had one project
with a client where they had a platform given to them globally, and every single
affiliate country had to implement it so they were slightly competitive, which I
thought was great, we made it a lot of fun, they're like, we want Canada to be
the best country who's implementing this, to be a role model, and so much so that
they start adopting our ways of working, and so that's what our vision was
about for our project, and so it really helped us to ensure why we were doing
the things we were doing, we spend a lot of time on change management, we spent
a lot of time ensuring that our messaging was good, why, because we wanted to be the
role model, and we knew they were gonna look at us, and we're just gonna hand
over all this stuff so they can start implementing in other countries, why,
because Canada rocks, anyway, awesome, awesome things to do, and you
really get people together and connected
Get organized, okay, you're saying that's a given, yeah, I know it's a given, but I'm
letting you know, because it's critical getting organizing, the beginning is
something that's gonna set you up for success, so I'm telling you this now,
because sometimes people don't put the energy and effort into the beginning,
they kind of stretch it out throughout the project lifecycle, do a lot of your
heavy lifting now, get your milestones, your timelines, everything prepped before
you do anything with your team, just really get organized so that you can
understand very quickly when things change, because they always do on
projects, that you can, on a dime, turn and go to the next direction, so get
organized, get prepared, and really do all the heavy lifting now in the beginning
of your project, Identify important people, you want to get critical people
who are gonna be in your circle of trust, so what I mean by that is, as a project
manager, you need to know who you can go to, who can mentor you, provide you with
guidance, anyone who can listen to you without judgment, because you don't want
to be spewing anything to your team members because you're their leader,
you're supposed to guide them, and you're supposed to know what's happening, so you
really need to ensure that you pick the right people in your circle of trust who
you can then get some feedback from, now, who is in that circle of trust, well you
want to have a few people within the organization, this is not a big circle,
it's a very small circle within the organization who can give you insights
to the politics, and things of that nature, even ideally someone above you,
again they can mentor you, but you also want to consider having someone outside
of your organization, because they're gonna give you another perspective too,
again, really get to know the important people, and those are the people who are
in your circle of trust, all right, now that you know some things
that you probably didn't think about when you start your new job as a project
manager, I want you to go, from the link below, and grab this, what to do, or your
checklist on what to do, to ensure that your projects do not fail, this is going
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