Team Management involves lot, lot and lot of ingredients in it, like team size, team's project and technical knowledge, team's task, assigning task to individual team member, assigning adhoc task, recent client related high priority issue, resource and his ability, target completion date, resolving team's task related issue, set-up or environment related issue, not over-burdening the team-members etc, etc, etc... By the end of each day is the per-day target completion achieved? If not then what step needs to be taken to achieve it, whether to accept the pre-prepaid 'Plan A' or 'Plan B' or even the unpre-paired one 'Plan C'? Summing the above we get the over-heated excel sheet called "Project and Resource Planning".
Is this is what "Project and Resource Planning" called? While achieving the target we end up pushing and pumping the engineer towards completion and target achievement[expecting with perfection].I personally don't feel this is the only way to achieve it. With my view, there is one more important ingredient which is missed above, rather for me it weighs 40% in overall project life-cycle and that ingredient is 'Positive Thinking'.
Now lets try including this ingredient in each and every phase. Be positive with your team, have full trust in your team, let each and every team-member know how valuable that engineer is for you, project and for the company. Be positive when mistake is done by any team-member than scolding him/her and showing this was biggest and craziest mistake you have ever seen. Tell him/her we are humans, we tend to do mistake, but understand how the mistake was made and make sure we don't repeat it. I am quite sure after understanding the mistake process, it wont be repeated for sure and the engineer would land up with more perfect outcome.
Be positive while planning the project plan and have full confidence and faith in the team and make sure you explain the team that it's due to teams ability and confidence in each team-member the plan is made in that way. The positive vibes surely reach every team-member.
It is not possible sometimes to achieve the per-day target completion of planned work. Be positive and tell the team-member, 'Its okay', I am quite sure tomorrow you would be able to complete your work. Consider today's day as an average day. Please check the result the next day, you will surely find maximum output from that team-member and others too, automatically all target dates are achieved and project is completed on time with more precise and scrutinized results with surely planned 'Plan A' and no 'Plan B or Plan C' is required.
This is the power of Positive Thinking!!
[Surely you must be having more such examples of Positive Thinking, please share and also give reviews on above article]
