Excellent PM must experience these three levels of transformation!

If you become an excellent project manager , Must go through 3 Lamellar metamorphosis , Look at all these things you have experienced ？
 

 

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first floor ： Adapt to resource shortages

The project manager is in an awkward position , Say it's an ordinary employee , But you need to lead the project team , Say management , But it doesn't seem to have that high authority . Manage yourself before , If you have too many tasks, it's no big deal to add a little more work , But you need to lead the project team by yourself , You may find that the situation is different . You will find the team 3 personal , The next job is to press 5 Assigned by individuals , Missing 2 The personal leader agreed to recruit , But it's too late to arrive .

 

So many task gaps can no longer be filled by working overtime alone , So the first step is to adapt to the shortage of resources , Two things need to be done ：

1） Adjust expectations , You can't expect to act after the resources are fully in place , But to do a good job in the psychological expectation that resources will always be short , Project managers are always dancing in chains , Otherwise, project management would not be so difficult .

2） Dare to give up , You can't be like yourself anymore , Expect every work to be completed more than expected , Accept that some work can't be completed . What you have to decide is , Under resource constraints, which one should be guaranteed and which one should be lost , Otherwise, if everyone is insured , The result is that everyone can't do well .

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The second floor ： Raise the level of thinking

It is very important to raise the level of thinking , Small A I have experienced such a thing ：

In the start-up review of a new project , The meeting was small A The leaders at that time suggested to the big boss that the project should be outsourced to a third party . Because the workload within the team was too saturated , And the projects at hand are all big projects that can't be stopped , Therefore, it is recommended that the project be outsourced to a third party . At the meeting, he analyzed every sentence in reason , And the logic is very clear , Just small A When secretly cheering for the leader in my heart , Just listen to the first Bang , The criticism of the big boss came like a storm .

Why did such a wonderful report get such fierce criticism ？ Because small A The leader of didn't make clear the significance of this project to the company . Many companies in the same industry have no chance to bid for this project , It's not easy to take it down , How can you say not to do . The company still wants to take this project as an opportunity , Build a benchmark project .

from childhood A Leaders look , He thought that the analysis was very thorough , But the big boss felt that he lacked the overall view , So he also unfortunately became a little A Of “ front ” Leader .

 

As a project manager , The height of thinking , Determines the level of our management , Learn to look at things from a higher perspective . How do you do that ？ Here you are 3 A suggestion ：

1） Look at the same thing from different positions

Look at the same thing from the interests of different roles , It's easy to understand the reasons for the other party's position , You can also be more aware of the limitations of your decision , It is conducive to cultivating one's own view of the overall situation .

2） hold 80% Put your energy into 20% In the core work of

The 28 law is universally applicable . After clarifying the interests of all parties , Look back at your position , Find and decide you 80% Beneficial 20% The core work , Then put your main energy into it , It often determines whether your performance indicators are achieved , And whether it can be recognized by leaders .

3） Learn from the best

If you don't know how to do it , Observe what the best people around you do , Learn from him .

 

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The third level ： Learn to be smart and let go

I have seen many teams , The plan is perfect , Stakeholders and risk points are also clearly listed , But in practice , I am still the main executor of most of the work , There are even direct “ On behalf of ” People work .

This phenomenon is particularly common among project managers with technical backgrounds , Everything is to take the lead and rush forward . This can't be said to be bad , But we can't say well , Because they didn't exert the maximum energy of the team . The early stage is barely , Because there are few people , It's time to perform the task by yourself , But later , The disadvantages of this practice are obvious .

You will find that you can't finish the task no matter how hard you rush , Instead, I got stuck in everything , The members of the project team have not grown much . So in this case , You should learn to let go wisely , Learn to do the following three things ：

1） Dare to delegate , What you don't have to do by yourself , Try to authorize other members of the project to do , Hold back your worries . You need more time 、 Focus on what you have to do yourself , Avoid becoming a bottleneck in the team .

At the same time, I can't bear to watch , The mentality of rushing to solve , Learn to give others opportunities to exercise , In the future, there will be more people in the team who can deal with similar things .

2） Know people well , Pay attention to the personality characteristics of each member , And make good use of the completion of each task , Find out what everyone is good at , Let the right person do the right thing , Improve the overall work efficiency of the team . Put the right person in the right place , It's the second step to let go wisely .

3） Training backbone , Dare to delegate 、 Know people and make good use of them , It's still the last step away from being smart and letting go ： Training backbone . If you can cultivate more backbones in the team , Then whether it is daring to authorize 、 It's easier to implement it if you know people and make good use of them , It's easier for you to be smart and let go .

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At the end

Some friends say , I don't have many people in the project now , Still need to learn these ？ Of course. , Look at those excellent project managers , Many of them don't necessarily bring hundreds 、 A team of thousands of people , You can also have amazing leadership , Because the transformation of each level will improve their workplace ability , Make yourself more competitive ！

 

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