What are the 3 biggest mistakes that project managers make?

What are the 3 biggest mistakes that project managers make?

In my role as a project leadership coach, trainer and facilitator I come across many project managers who are struggling to gain traction on their projects. They find it hard to get team members to commit, to gain buy-in from stakeholders and to win people over. They put in a lot of effort and complete a lot of work; yet they are not getting the results they want. Their projects are slipping, their clients are unhappy and their teams are de-motivated. Often, it is the most urgent requests that get their attention. At the bottom of the pile are activities that they never get around to. They are simply too busy to be on top of it all and are falling pray to three of the most common traps in the project management: They manage tasks, events and processes at the expense of leading people They are reactive and focus on the urgent rather than the important They believe they have to know it all and do it all instead of looking to the team for solutions and innovative ideas Mistake #1: Managing tasks and events at the expense of leading people The most common mistake project managers make is that they are more concerned with tasks and events than with people and the human impact of change – often unknowingly.

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What are the 3 biggest mistakes that project managers make?

     


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