PART 1 Individual:Your Behaviors That May Hurt or Help Your Project

Before you dive into an effort to maximize project success through enhancing the performance of other people, it’s important to reflect on how you perform, from first impressions to leadership style. You may not realize it, but your own habitual behavior can both help and hurt your ability to lead a team, which will affect the success of your overall project. For example, a project manager may present herself as a highly organized project manager to her team, but all her actions indicate otherwise: meetings that run late, meetings without agendas, meetings without minutes, and so on. These may sound trivial, but people notice when their leaders practice “do as I say, not as I do.” People can lose respect for such leaders relatively quickly. Part 1 will help you create a baseline for your behavior as well as test whether your messaging is consistent.