Become the Leader Your Team Will Want to Follow
Managing projects isn’t just about tracking deadlines, budgets, and Gantt charts. It’s also about leading a team. And let’s be real – if your project team doesn’t respect you, you’re just someone with a title, not a leader. If you want your project to successfully cross the finish line, being the kind of manager your team wants to follow is an absolute must.
Here are some practical tips for what you can do to earn the respect of your entire project team.
Tip #1 – Be consistent and fair
Double standards are a respect killer, so you want to ensure you apply the same rules to everyone on your project (including yourself) and treat everyone with the same level of respect. These are some things that will help to support that:
- Be consistent with communication
- Be clear with expectations
- Hold everyone accountable in the same way
- Address conflicts promptly
Tip #2 – Empower your team
A surefire way to earn the respect of your team is to empower them. Steer clear of micromanaging, and instead show them that you trust them. The best way to do that while also ensuring project success, is to:
- Set your project up correctly from the beginning
- Communicate clear expectations around roles, responsibilities, and deadlines
- Step back and let them shine
Even more ways to earn the respect of your team
I have a few more proven strategies for earning the respect of your project team, so I put them all into a video. Follow me over to YouTube and we’ll keep chatting about this!
Gaining the respect of your project team is just one brick in the foundation of your success. You also need the right project management strategies and skills to help you and your team deliver successfully. Make sure you check out my SLAY Project Management course where I give you all the templates, tips, and techniques to implement to make every project successful.
Cheers,
Adriana Girdler, PMP | Creator of Slay Project Management™
P.S. Check out what one of my students said recently about SLAY:
“… provided me with the knowledge and confidence to execute my projects efficiently, on time, and with more thoughtful and organized collaboration. Adriana demonstrates the how but also why – which, to me, provides a more long-term impact by giving me the context (clear is kind) to share these practices with my team.” TW
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