To Avoid Failure, Communicate Better.

Most businesses no matter where they are located in the world are involved, one way or another in instigating and floating business projects. These projects are the plans designed to take a Company forward and make it grow. It is this growth that determines the ultimate success in both financial and human terms of a business. Project management has become a new buzzword within industry. Companies appoint project managers who set up teams to administer the project that the mangers were first employed to instigate, and round and round we go. Projects are important but many of them fail. Why is this?
Most projects fail not because of poor planning. You can have all the graphs; charts and forward thinking IT processes in the planet but you can still fail! It's not the planning, but the much more important ingredient of the scheme, and that is the team itself. The team comprises the most important and expensive asset that any business has. This asset is of course, people. It is imperative that people are used wisely

"The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing." said Robert J.Havinghurst.
The team player needs to have the individual skills required so that he or she can input these into the overall structure of the project. In other words he has to know what he is doing and this is a process of training and education. It would be a complete waste of resources to appoint somebody to a time management project if the individual is unable to tell the time, wouldn't it? On the other side of the coin, the competent team player needs to be valued for his skills and input to the overall plan. The particular individual invariably has ideas and information that need to be shared with the other participants. The employee will only do that effectively if he feels his manager and other project members value him and above all his ideas. If his input is dismissed or worse still derided ,he will feel alienated and outside the structure of the scheme. His negative input will be damaging, particularly to the morale of the other participants. To put it in a nutshell, then, the essence of good and effective project management is like so many things, dependent upon positive and effective communication. If the manager cannot communicate effectively with his or her team, you can bet your bottom dollar that the project is destined to fail or certainly become less effective than it could be. So when it comes to hiring the leaders it pays to choose very carefully. Look out for those who have a proven track record as managers who have motivated teams through their fluency of communication.

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