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Communication Tips & Tricks for Project Managers. Kelly Sullivan CSTI PO BOX 3084 OSWEGO NY 13126 csti@twcny.rr.com. Project Team Success Strategies. None of us is as smart as all of us. - Ken Blanchard. Success Tool. Listen MORE than you TALK. How Messages are Communicated.
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Communication Tips & Tricks for Project Managers Kelly Sullivan CSTI PO BOX 3084 OSWEGO NY 13126 csti@twcny.rr.com
Project Team Success Strategies None of us is as smart as all of us.- Ken Blanchard
Success Tool Listen MORE than you TALK
How Messages are Communicated Words We Use How We Say Words, Sounds We Make Nonverbal, Body Language
Success Tool: Attending • Giving your physical attention to others • Stay focused • Lean toward • Be at eye level • Maintain eye contact • Gesture when you are listening • Keep an open posture • Be aware of proximity
Success Tool: Effective Listening • Level 1 • Reflective listening/clarifying/summarizing “You are frustrated because the task hasn’t been completed.” “You prepared the meeting notes but have not yet sent them on to the project team for review.” • Level 2 • Hearing words, but not necessarily the speaker’s intent • Level 3 • Tuning in and tuning out
Success Tool: Roles • Task-oriented role: • Initiating, seeking information, giving information, coordinating, and evaluating. • Relations-oriented role: • Encouraging members through praise and acceptance, harmonizing, encouraging participation, expressing standards, and following.
Success Tool: Ground Rules • Ground rules are statements of values and guidelines which a group establishes consciously to help individual members to decide how to act. • Ground rules must be clear, consistent, agreed-to, and followed. • Team ground rules define how individuals treat each other, communicate, participate, cooperate, support each other, and coordinate joint activity. • Ground rules may be used to define and standardize team procedure, use of time, work assignments, meeting logistics, preparation, minutes, discussion, creativity, reporting, respect and courtesy.
Success Tool – The Shared Problem Statement How To: Step #3 Interest #1 Interest #2 AND Chunking Up: Step #2 Help me understand – What would having that do for you/what would it bring you? Determine Positions: Step #1 I Want..... I Want..... BUT
Success Tool: Brainstorming • Focus on quantity • Withhold criticism • Outrageous ideas are welcome • Combine and improve
Success Tool – Nominal Group Technique • Silent generation of ideas • Share ideas in a round robin fashion • Group discussion • Voting & ranking