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16 Essential Questions to Project Leadership Success

3/11/2012

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The quality of your project depends on the quality of the questions you ask

Good project managers do not take anything for granted. They are proactive and positively sceptical. They are constantly looking to improve the way the project operates and how they can add value to the client by challenging the status quo. The more quality questions you ask on a continual basis, the bigger the likelihood that you will steer your project in the right direction.

To improve your success rate, ask yourself the below questions and take action to address any gaps you identify:

1. How can I become more certain that the products and features we are   developing are what the users really want and need? 
2. How can I, and my team, get to understand my clients business so well that we are able to actively challenge the requirements and the project’s vision?
3. How can I improve my relationship with my customers and more frequently ask into their feedback about the project?
4.  How can I get better at identifying and mitigating the project’s risks? 
5.  How can my team start to focus more on product quality?
6.  What could get in our way of achieving the end project goal? What have we not yet thought of? 
7.  How can I better motivate and utilize the strengths of my team members? 
8.  How can I better inspire my team to contribute to the project’s end goal?

And here are some more questions that will really help you to improve your performance and add value to your client:

9.   What is my unique contribution to the project and how can I focus more on it?
10.  How can I instantly start to add more value to my client?
11.  What are the 20% of actions that I do on a daily or weekly basis that contribute to 80% of my results? How can I amplify those 20%?
12.  How can I spend my time more proactively?
13.  Which bad decisions have I made that need to be reverted?
14.  Which important tasks and activities have I been putting off or procrastinating on?
15.  Who can I start to delegate to, so that I free myself up to focus on the activities that really matter to the success of the project?
16.  What are the most important business benefits for my client, that I can help them track and deliver?


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8 Comments
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30/4/2013 22:41:56

After a long time I got something fresh and quality content on related topic. I searched a lot for the related material but got almost replica work. Keep it up! It is really very informative.

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1/5/2013 00:34:00

Thank you! I'm pleased you found the post to have some originality. That's what it's all about :-)

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9/5/2013 04:38:59

Nice post! There is always a good demand for the project managers. Here I got a variety of tips for being a good project manager. I have gone through the entire points here and it made a good sense reading all of them. Best wishes!

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Susanne Madsen link
9/5/2013 05:05:17

Great! Now you just need to implement it! Reading is good - but results come from 'doing' it :-)

Susanne

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20/7/2013 04:12:37

. Best wishes!

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25/7/2013 01:18:26

I would like to thank you for your nicely written post, its informative and your writing style encouraged me to read it till end

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25/7/2013 08:44:01

Only proactive position of the Good project manager can grant 50% of the project success, the rest 50% - are granted by these 16 Essential Questions to Project Leadership Success. Dear Susanne, thank you a lot for sharing them with us and possibility to implement them in our activity.

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7/9/2013 02:28:58

Though they study an entire unit on it in the certificate iv course, I think a lot comes down to personal time management strategies.

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