By Wayne Goulding on
January 20th, 2010
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Process for Handling the Dips in the Road
The majority of unexpected situations that hit a project during its execution are dips in the road to closure; a leader can certainly prepare both themselves and a process for the team, to deal with these.
As the project leader you own the solution/decision process, like any of the other project processes, and are responsible for:
- Understanding the organization’s decision culture and its implications for affecting a final solution
- Ensuring the process is viewed as fair, legitimate and transparent by the participants, in order to maintain an engaged and cohesive team, through commitment and shared understanding
- Driving the team to converge on a final solution; not personally creating the final solution and selling it to them
- Sharing with the team what the process is and the role they will play and what your role will be
- Fostering a creative environment for solution development
The bottom line is: People want to be engaged and to have their positions heard on any given issue; then, they want a choice to be made, so the team can move on.
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Like many of his colleagues Wayne is an “accidental project manager”, starting as a mechanical designer, advancing into engineering, passing into engineering planning, growing to lead global, high-tech, complex programs, advising senior management in program/project process development.
Wayne’s decades of work have yielded a diverse experience set; his jobs included, designing of machine tools, designing for automated assembly, manufacturing engineer, managing a software application development project, managing customer relations, managing product release to market programs, leading a non-profit organization, managing telecom upgrade projects, managing customer call center projects, managing project portfolio process development; his career has journeyed through industry sectors in metal-working/assembly manufacturing, nuclear energy, computer manufacturing, automotive, telecommunications; his forms of employment have run the full gambit, from full-time employee, to contractor, to consultant; he has contributed directly to, IBM, Westinghouse, Intuit, PMI-Silicon Valley Chapter, Honda/Acura, SoftReach Services, plus others; thru customer interfacing jobs he has worked with numerous Fortune 500 corporations many at the executive level.
Educationally, Wayne has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Business Administration, and a certificate in Program/Project Management. He is a certified PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) and is past president of the PMI-Silicon Valley chapter.
With all the above, and more, it is clear Wayne is not one to sit idle. He is constantly doing, learning or teaching. Philosophically he believes a person’s success is measured in project achievements, new perspectives gained, new people met and help given along the way.
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(The Business of Project Management - waynegoulding-blog.com)
