It Is Only By Letting Go That We Begin To Change
Many of us have years and years of experience that we bring to our projects. We know what it takes.
Because of that experience, we often get stuck at our current level of know-how. We aren’t letting go and continuing to learn and move to the next level. We become victims of our own success!
This frequently leads to complacency on projects. I see this all of the time. We are OK with how things are going. We believe that we are doing fine if we are not fighting. Things are OK.
Every week, I see teams who would never settle for OK. They’re going to jump on issues. They’re going to get a resolution. They’re going to implement that resolution, so that the issue has little to no impact on the project; or they may even find a resolution that improves the project’s results. They are constantly striving to make things better. These projects do phenomenal things like build a million dollars a day for ninety days. They achieve success in ways that nobody thought was even possible.
At the same time, I see teams who are perfectly fine but the project’s been delayed a couple months. “We couldn’t get an answer to our questions. There’s this third party affecting us. The third party is kind of dysfunctional. We can’t get them to come to our meetings. We continue to try and get the answer. We don’t want to go outside the protocol. Somebody might get upset.” The project team continues working the same issue, doing the same thing, in the same way, with the same people, expecting to get a different result.
So how can you overcome complacency? How can you become a high performing team? For sure to get there you are going to have to LET GO of how you’ve always done things that produce the results that you are getting. It is only by letting go that we begin to change and if we don’t change then everything will just be the same has it has always been.
One way to ensure positive change is to challenge yourself and your project team to go through the IPI Project Leader Certification Training. The Project Leader Certification Training can help shift your perspective so you can see things differently. You will learn strategies, frameworks, tactics, and tools that help you become a high performing project team. This means that you must let go of what has worked in order to make room for new ideas, concepts and relationships.
So, your challenge this week is to think about what YOU need to let go of in order to make room to move to the next level?.
Sue
Sue Dyer, MBA, MIPI is a Master Partnering Facilitator & Founder for OrgMetrics LLC, WSJ bestselling author on Trusted Leadership for construction leaders, Founder of the International Partnering Institute, and President of sudyco® LLC. You can contact Sue at suedyer@orgmet.com or 510 504-5877.