Project Leadership – Every Project Leader’s First Concern

The psychological noise and pollution of the emotional manipulator needs to conclude; starting today.

Toxic people are having their way in every facet of our professional and personal lives. Its evidence has infiltrated the highest leadership levels of our society.

Everything must be accomplished with immediate gratification being the leader.

The hook, the promise, the endless tampering with our need to move away from pain and accelerate to pleasure, regardless the cost to anyone around you or to yourself, has reached intolerable levels.

Project Leaders can uncover these team members by identifying “the influencers” on the team.  

They are team members wrapped in the politics of the project versus the activity of the project.

They should be redirected to an area of the project where their influence will not slow the project achievements and thwart any semblance of psychological safety and trust on the team.  

Project Leaders (versus managers) are most concerned with the leadership of the team, versus the management of the activity.

The Project Leader’s first concern is to create an environment where project team members feel psychologically safe and have trust in one another.

When project teams feel psychologically safe and have an environment filled with trust, this is the setting ripe for projects to complete on time, at budget, with generous rates of return on investment and recurring hard dollar savings.

There aren’t any certifications and tool sets to process these critical and necessary skills; they are learned and practiced, boots on the ground with front-line experience. 

Project Leaders should persist in their education of human nature; always honing their practical skill set to build trust and psychological safety, the two most critical commodities to project leadership.

When you have a firm plan in place of how you are going to build credibility and trust with a team, then you have a chance of leading a group of people that want to work together; emotional manipulators are quickly identified and not welcomed.

If you want help with defining the best trust and psychological safety plans for your project team, please message me or visit www.consultdonna.com and set-up a call.

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