PMP / Lesson 4: Keeping the team ...

Mentor relevant stakeholders

Enablers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.