TABLE OF CONTENTS It's no accident that the bulk of this book is devoted to the aspects of initiation and planning. If you have managed these phases well, your job at this stage putting the plan into action should be far easier. That said, there's still plenty to do.
Firstly, you need to get your team working effectively as quickly as possible. This calls for well-developed leadership and team building skills on the part of the project manager. Then you need to keep track of what's happening. No project can run itself without careful and constant monitoring, and it's almost certaint that you'll encounter change or have problems to solve at some point.
The key to managing the implementation phase is communication from you to the various project stakeholders and from them to you. As project manager, this is a central part of your role.
This theme explores these issues further. You will:
Assess the leadership skills that inspire high performance in a team and consider your own strengths and development needs as a project leader
Explore techniques for building and motivating a team
Review how to monitor and control a project
Use techniques for recognising and solving problems.
The following activities are particularly important for the project manager:
planning
motivation
communication
monitoring.
Leadership can be added to this list as a general, overall need.
Many projects come to grief because the planning for them was inadequate in some way. A common fault...
