{"id":5345,"date":"2010-11-04T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2010-11-04T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T16:37:08","slug":"getting-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=5345","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations!\u00a0 You’ve just received your new project assignment!\u00a0 As project manager, you are propelled into the project.\u00a0 You need human resources to help scope, plan, and execute the project on schedule and within budget.\u00a0 You need a variety of skills and expertise to support the project’s complicated needs — and you need them quickly.<\/p>\n

Sound familiar?\u00a0 There are four easy steps to follow to ensure a strong team foundation as you are getting started:<\/p>\n

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  1. Define the Team.\u00a0 Always identify what<\/em> you need, not who<\/em> you need.\u00a0 Clearly identify the skills, experience, and qualifications for each required team member.\u00a0 You are more likely to find what you need when recruiting team members by attributes versus names.\u00a0When you approach functional managers to request resources, describe the skills, expertise, and assets of what you need — you are effectively informing managers how to develop other staff memebers who might not quite have what it takes to make the team today.\u00a0 This has long-term value for both you as the\u00a0requesting\u00a0manager and the functional manager.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  2. Define the Project.\u00a0 It is critical that everyone understands the project’s goal because this is one of the best ways to turn a group into a team.\u00a0 Having the project clearly defined is a great starting point to ensure everyone has the same shared vision and is working toward the same outcomes.\u00a0 In other words, everyone should be able to answer the key question, “What are we doing?”\u00a0 Unless everyone is capable of answering this question with confidence, accuracy, and consistency, there is little chance that the group assigned to execute the project will do so successfully.<\/li>\n
  3. Identify Supporting Team Behaviors.\u00a0 Determining the “right” set of behaviors to support productive\u00a0teamwork is\u00a0never easy because team dynamics are intricate and\u00a0difficult.\u00a0 Ideally, a set of\u00a0behaviors to best support teamwork must be articulated in a universal language because these behaviors need to be owned by everyone on the team.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  4. Establish Accountability.\u00a0 Engage your team members to establish a culture of accountability.\u00a0 In other words, how will each person on the team support the team behaviors?\u00a0 How will members on the team address those who do not adhere to the behaviors?\u00a0 How will feedback be exchanged among team members?\u00a0 As the team leader, it is critical that you provide objectivity to the group process, you offer everyone a voice, and you guide the group as a whole to create the “right” set of guidelines for the group as a whole.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Four easy steps.\u00a0 Lasting value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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