Supervisors need to provide leadersnip and inspiration neir team, to be good motivators of their team members, as well as good managers, worying about the day-to-day and minute-by-minute accomplishment of the project's goals. Being a good motivator also means that the supervisors must be good listeners to understand what issues are confronting their team members. Finally, they should carefully listen to the needs of their team members. The supervisors were realizing that as a group they needed two things. One was a greater grasp of people skills, or so-called "soft" skills, to help make them more effective. The other was more support in project management as they needed to better track the details of the work, and the task level scheduling and rescheduling that was happening as team members come and go for their work shifts and as permissions sometimes take longer to obtain than planned. Samantha is starting to discuss with her management and with the human resources and training group how they can meet some of these needs. Perhaps some leadership development training for supervisors could be arranged. Moreover, she is talking with her management about setting up a project management office (PMO) to have project management staff available to help the supervisors with some of their work tracking and scheduling challenges. She hopes that addressing these two issues will make their eBook delivery much smoother. Comment on the following aspects of the case study. Your answer should be 500-750 words per question. a) What steps could project managers take to help make their teams more effective? b) What advice would you give Samantha about setting up a project management office (PMO)? What roles could these staff perform, and how could they interact with the existing projects? C) Describe other ways that this PMO function could be organized.
Supervisors need to provide leadersnip and inspiration neir team, to be good motivators of their team members, as well as good managers, worying about the day-to-day and minute-by-minute accomplishment of the project's goals. Being a good motivator also means that the supervisors must be good listeners to understand what issues are confronting their team members. Finally, they should carefully listen to the needs of their team members. The supervisors were realizing that as a group they needed two things. One was a greater grasp of people skills, or so-called "soft" skills, to help make them more effective. The other was more support in project management as they needed to better track the details of the work, and the task level scheduling and rescheduling that was happening as team members come and go for their work shifts and as permissions sometimes take longer to obtain than planned. Samantha is starting to discuss with her management and with the human resources and training group how they can meet some of these needs. Perhaps some leadership development training for supervisors could be arranged. Moreover, she is talking with her management about setting up a project management office (PMO) to have project management staff available to help the supervisors with some of their work tracking and scheduling challenges. She hopes that addressing these two issues will make their eBook delivery much smoother. Comment on the following aspects of the case study. Your answer should be 500-750 words per question. a) What steps could project managers take to help make their teams more effective? b) What advice would you give Samantha about setting up a project management office (PMO)? What roles could these staff perform, and how could they interact with the existing projects? C) Describe other ways that this PMO function could be organized.
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