Too many projects languish at the bottom of someone’s in-try.
My experience is people seldom like to say NO, and passive resistance to change comes from a thousand “Yes but…” excuses or pending some critical meeting, review, endorsement, memo, assurance or approval.
The problem is that too often delay or doing nothing is more expensive and risky than doing something and (if necessary) making corrective action.
The mantra is often to Do Ditch Delegate or Delay
My challenge is to help them Decide. My approach is what I call my Go for Launch meetings. I invite the stakeholders or work-stream owners to a meeting and simply ask: “Are we go for launch?”
This face-to-face approach to managing people and tasks is far better than memos and emails because people immediately have focus and ownership for the response.
The answer is either YES, or NO because…..
At least then I can hear and manage the delay which otherwise pile up as inaction rather than challenges to overcome.
Interestingly people don’t like saying NO, so very often I get YES and a firm commitment where otherwise there would be deafening silence.
Having made the firm commitment, and having done it personally (with ownership for the response) it is interesting to see how many stuck projects become personal missions and quickly become unstuck.
Feedback and comments always welcome
TimHJRogers
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TimHJRogers World Champs Rower, Commonwealth Games Triathlete, MBA (Management Consulting) PRINCE2 Projects & Change Practitioner, TEDx & Jersey Policy Forum
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