How Natural Tendencies Can Strengthen Your Project Team

How do you know you have the right people working on your projects?

Peter Lucas has been providing gold standard project delivery across North America for over a decade by investing in people, community, and cutting-edge technology. Our goal has always been to have the right people working on the right projects. One of the challenges that comes with this approach is that someone who may be a good fit with one client team, may not jive with another. With this in mind, Peter Lucas developed an internal personality assessment to try and uncover the attributes that are most indicative of success with each of our clients’ teams, which has been successfully implemented and utilized for the past several years.

One of the discoveries we made was that when it came to understanding if someone would fit with their existing team, our clients primarily focused on areas that determined rationality during decision making, degree of emotional stability during stressful periods, and how social they tend to be. We also started to notice trends in certain personality traits and how they linked to the various project stages throughout the project management lifecycle. The combination of these discoveries was the primary inspiration behind creating the Project Strengths Model – a personality model that generally aligns with the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Process.

With a strong focus on key personality traits and natural tendencies, we are identifying gaps and addressing how teams can play to their natural abilities to better manage performance, resulting in greater project outcomes. 2024 Finalists (and winner in 2022) for the NSBA Business Builder Award for Team Building, Peter Lucas has been revealing their secrets of the Project Strengths Model to ensure professionals are working more in their areas of strength, and that teams have minimal blind spots.

Relevant to teams in any industry, the Project Strengths Model is discussed in 3 parts:

1. Personality dimensions that have the greatest influence on how individuals interact with one another and within teams
2. Project stages and the traits required to remain motivated at each stage of work
3. Activities that naturally contribute to levels of satisfaction and confidence.

Learning how to combine this information to leverage natural abilities and identify gaps is how Peter Lucas has planned for team growth. The results identify the project stages that naturally energize vs stress an individual out, balancing that out with team members ensures projects don’t stall and motivation for a gold standard project delivery is easily achieved.

To learn more about Peter Lucas and how they are providing gold standard project delivery visit www.peterlucas.ca.