4/20/2023 0 Comments Stay afloat meaning![]() ![]() Communicating vision must be a continuous process. It is not enough to give a five-minute speech at the kick-off meeting about how the project supports the corporate vision. Vision provides the reason for the project’s existence, and the project manager must always stay aware of the vision of her own company as well as his customer’s organization and then communicate to all the project’s stakeholders how the project supports that vision.Ĭritical to communicating the vision is an ongoing dialogue to the project’s membership. The building of the ark served the vision to save lives. Noah understood that her vision wasn’t to build an ark-it was to save eight human lives and 17,600 species of animals from a flood. And, part of understanding what the vision is means remembering what it is not. As strong project managers we must always be focused on how our projects serve the greater good of the company’s bottom line. It’s the reason for our existence as project managers, but it is so easy to forget what gives our project purpose in the scheme of the larger organizations they serve. Lifeboat 1-Noah Understood the Vision and Communicated It These strategies still hold true today, and can provide great value for present day project managers. Noah, who might even be coined as the world’s first project manager, was effective at delivering this critical leadership, and he exhibited what could be termed “lifeboat strategies” to stay afloat instead of sinking. ![]() Much of a project manager’s achievements are dictated by how well he is able to integrate and inspire his team, maintain communication, and build relationships. The most successful project managers understand that a balance must be found between the technical tasks that they must be responsible for and the leadership they must provide for the project stakeholders. Why is this the case? Because though projects themselves are unique they each depend on one common element-the involvement of people. It has become easy to forget that the time we spend away from our computer may serve us better in the end. The benefits are undeniable.īut, has it made us more successful project managers? Too often, project managers plant themselves in front of a computer monitor building project schedules, tracking actuals, and wading through piles of e-mail when time could be better spent elsewhere. In many ways, the advancement of technology has allowed each of us as project managers to become more knowledgeable about our project’s status as well as become more responsive to issues and changes that naturally show during a project’s execution. ![]() They fight the good fight in a virtual battlefield of teleconferences and e-mails striving to see their crusade through to success. Driven by time to market and the “better, faster, cheaper” syndrome, modern project management warriors arm themselves with slick software scheduling tools and mobile phones in attempt to bring some sense of order and control to otherwise chaotic projects. Today’s modern business world is a complex one it’s a fluid, ever-changing environment where technology changes can be dated within a calendar year and where clients are becoming savvier across all industries. ![]()
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