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This blog is not intended to be some super wishy-washy inspiring piece, however the importance of having personal goals cannot be understated. What gets you up in the morning? What drives you? What makes you strive to be better? Everybody has an internal engine that runs on overcoming challenges. These challenges can be anything and everything. Typical examples include:
• Read a book cover to cover
• Run a 5km race
• Learn a new language
• Quit smoking
The thing that all of these have in common… nobody forces you to do these except you. It is just you and your own motivation that will get you to complete these things.
So, what about at work? How does having a goal in your career aid you day-to-day? Well this time we can look at chasing down something with a little more weight.
• Gain a new qualification
• Go for that new managerial position
• Expand your experiences on your CV
• Go up a wage-band
These things all have benefits to you as an individual, but can also improve your mental attitude towards work. Energy will be better spent, efficiently and effectively, and the reason you get up and go to work becomes much more than just “earn money to pay the bills” (which is of course motivation enough for most!)
This is where I believe that a project / line manager can utilise these goals and even aid the individual in achieving them. A PM is fundamentally a leader, and a good leader should lead by example. It is essential that a PM has a good blend of both personal and professional goals that the team can be inspired by, and the PM should use their inspiration to help the team set their own goals. On-boarding and appraisal meetings are brilliant ways to navigate this. Once the PM understands the goals from their team members, we can then align their work to the activities that will help aid their achievement of them. For example:
• A team member wants to expand their experiences on their CV – A PM can place the individual in a PMO or PM assistant role to see as many different aspects of the job as possible.
• Perhaps a team member has a fitness goal to achieve – A PM may offer the individual a more manual role, or give the incentive of finishing slightly earlier on certain days to go and workout as long as their work related targets have been hit.
• Or finally a team member may simply just want to earn more money – A PM may not be able to grant this straight away, but the PM can lay out a strategic pathway to get the individual into a higher wage-band or better paying role.
A good PM has HR skills. This is really nothing to do with the structure of projects at all, but simply just learning to be a people person and understand what makes their team members tick.
Leadership and motivation are fundamental to project management as I am sure you can see. I cover much more of this content in my training courses. Want to learn about this? Call 0800 151 0140 or visit www.spoce.com to view all our dates, times, locations and methods. We can send you a course outline or syllabus to see exactly what is covered in each of our methods.
Happy New Year and I can’t wait to see you soon.
Having worked in the industry since 2016, Harley’s experience is vast and knowledge of project management methods is of an elite standard. He has covered a wide variety of roles in a plethora of projects and has worked with some incredible project professionals over the years; there is seldom a scenario that Harley has not encountered.
Residing in Poole, Dorset Harley has specialized in maritime projects and programmes in and around the stunning natural harbour. From project managing major yachting events, to advising on risk management approaches, the natural elements have thrown endless challenges into projects where Harley has strategically extracted the best outcomes from each scenario. These tales make up some of Harley’s most interesting examples used when delivering his training of which attendees enjoy.
SPOCE is proud to have industry leading pass rates for delegates in the PRINCE2® and APM methods which Harley has played a vital part in achieving. Starting his training career in 2019, he would run sessions such as “what makes the perfect business case?” and the much loved “PRINCE2 Practitioner exam workshops”.
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