Project Management Y2 Team Management

What is a team?

Small group of mutually-accountable people with complementary skills committed to a common purpose. Can be internally or externally based

What could constrain your team-building methods

-Making a profit/delivering project mentalities will override the motivation, enthusiasm and development of the team

-Lack of development and loss of enthusiasm, leading to people leaving team

Conditions to build a good team

1.clear idea of mission

-only do work that develops your team

-build client relationship

-try not employing contractors, or learn from them when done

2. Do your own business development

-you cannot think long-term if you are too busy surviving hand-to-mouth and so you must have work to do

3. Keep accountants and their mentality in place

4. Seek an intelligent client who is keen to build a relationship with you

5. work with your team

6. adapt to your needs to suit their motivations without sacrificing client

Team building preliminaries

1. avoid conflict by understanding the role of the owner

2. clarify objectives

3. Develop a good work process

4.Form the team when there is a good chance the project will go ahead

5. Sponsors must get involver

6. Find people with right skill sets

7. Need continuity to avoid previous mistakes

Tuckman 5-stage team development model stages

1.Forming

2.Storming

3.Norming

4.Performing

5.Adjourning

What is forming?

Team members come together, high motivation, must be done quickly as projects are subject to time constraints

what is storming?

When team has differences about the best way to achieve projects, which can cause conflict, therefore reducing team motivation and effectiveness

what is norming

Team begins to reach agreement on issues through negotiation and compromise, resulting in motivation and effectiveness to rise

what is performing

Team works together effectively for porject duration

what is adjourning

team reaches end of task at which point members make a concerted effort to complete tasks

Challenges with team management

lack of perceived team identity

ineffective cohesion

misaligned learning styles

misunderstanding of success

lack of mental toughness

lack of motivation

lack of purpose

lack of proactivity

lack of profit sharing

lack of progression

lack of professional recognition

failing to strike balance between democratic process and exercise of authority

team is unsupported after it is formed