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THE LEARNING PROFESSIONALTM Project Performance and Career Advancement Tips Volume 6, Issue 2 | |
In This Issue: AuxTipsTM
Encouraging Your Workforce During Difficult Times
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AuxTipsTM Quick tips you can start implementing immediately.
Distribute Leadership and Management Responsibility
Project success depends on strength in three key areas: ability to fulfill technical requirements, project management, and project leadership. Managers generally focus on staffing to fulfill the technical requirements, but often don't ensure that all of the necessary leadership and management aspects are covered. A manger can't usually do all this single-handedly, so these responsibilities need to be distributed among two or more people.
If managers aren't doing everything possible to ensure success, this is an opportunity for leaders to step up and help. Anyone who is trusted, respected, and influential in an organization has the fundamental leadership qualities to influence the changes that are necessary for improved results. This influence might include pointing out any roles and responsibilities that are lacking, and being persistent with managers and stakeholders until all roles and responsibilities are adequately covered.
Encouraging Your Workforce During Difficult Times
Susan de la Vergne
No doubt about it, this has been a dark few weeks in the news. The economic landscape of our country is changing before our very eyes.
I won’t re-cap the events. You know them. Lehman Brothers, AIG, the Dow below 10,000—no, wait, I said I wouldn’t re-cap them. No need for that, when we have live updates of the particulars coming at us every minute.
But the live updates trigger more questions than they answer. Certainly, the one question everyone is asking is “What does it mean to me?”
“What does it mean to my investments? To my 401k? To my accounts at Merrill Lynch or Lehman Brothers? To the company I work for? To my job? To the future?”
First the mortgage implosion, now this! What’s next?
It’s likely employees in your company are actively worried. You see signs of it all around you: People checking the internet constantly to see how the Dow and the S&P are doing, people chatting in the break room, the parking lot, the cafeteria.
“My uncle worked for Lehman for 10 years, and bang, he’s out of a job.”
“I’ve lost a huge chunk of our college fund in the last couple of weeks, and my son is ready to head off to school next year!”
“Anyone can be next! No one is safe.”
You realize it’s impeding progress where you work, hitting individual productivity, taking down the collective morale. But what can you do?
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