Mentor relevant stakeholders

Enablers

• Allocate the time for ongoing mentoring. (ECO 1.13.1)
• Recognize and act on mentoring opportunities. (ECO 1.13.2)
• Determine appropriate feedback for effectiveness. (ECO 1.3.3)

Deliverables, and Tools

Coaching and Mentoring

• Coaching and mentoring others helps them become more proficient team members.
• Raising the abilities of the team increases their output and their value.
• Increasing the knowledge base and the skill sets of all project stakeholders promotes more successful and effectively managed projects.
• With limited time and resources, you must make sacrifices on how to mentor others.
• Start mentoring the relevant stakeholders in a project and expand from there throughout the organization.

Transformation Skills

• The project organization, the business, and the world are constantly changing and evolving.
• Supporting the transformation requires patience and compassionate mentoring.
• Most noticeable in teams that are transforming from one project management approach to another.
• In today’s digital world, the skill set being used today may be obsolete or limited tomorrow.

Determining Relevant Stakeholders

• When refining the backlog, mentoring the product owner on grooming best practices.
• When onboarding a new project team member, guiding her on the processes used by the team.
• When a team member must purchase material for the project, showing them the procurement best practices and process for the organization.

Individual Mentoring and Coaching

Mentoring and Coaching as a Group

• Mentoring and coaching also occurs in whole team settings.
• When project managers are demonstrating the best means to complete a project management task, all involved in the activity are learning.
• Project managers can call out and explain what is happening and why.
• Others in the group can contribute and guide the practice.
• The entire team learns and grows as a unit.
• All on the team are relevant stakeholders.

Facilitation

• Project managers generally take the lead when it comes to facilitating project management activities.
• Modeling good project facilitation skills is observed and internalized by all.
• Encouraging participation from stakeholders in the activities builds their knowledge and comprehension.
• Guiding and offering advice provides relevant feedback and confidence in what they are doing.
• Increasing the abilities of all project stakeholders increases the shared understanding and efficiency of project tasks and practices.
• When all contribute, all gain.