Project Team Leadership: 5 Tips for Leading Your Project Team

As soon as you get your own project team to lead, you will need to develop the craft of project team leadership. In this video, I share five of my best tips.

Tip 1: Direction
At the outset, your team needs clear direction
As they mature, let them direct themselves

Tip 2: Support
Support relationship building when it’s needed
Then get out of the way

Tip 3: Demeanor
Never under-estimate the impact that your demeanour will have on your team.

Tip 4: Motivation
Intrinsic Motivation trumps Extrinsic Motivation. To motivate your team, give them:
- Clear purpose
- Autonomy to make choices
- Opportunity to develop mastery of what they are doing
- An environment of respect
- Recognition for their contributions
- A chance to build strong relationships

Tip 5: Feedback
Give team members feedback on their performance.
Do it to give them a BOOST. Make your feedback:
- Balanced - between criticism and confirmation
- Observed - based on evidence
- Objective - about the behavior: not the person
- Specific - enough for them to take targeted action
- Timely - so they can still recall what they did

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Our Kindle Exclusive compilation of Project Team Leadership guidance is:

In it, we cover five topics:
1. Get Better Results from you Team with Tuckman
2. What You Need to Know about Building a Great Project Team
3. Boost Your Project Team Performance with these Hacks
4. Everything You Need to Know about Project Team Motivation
5. Great Team Communication: The 10 Commandments

Also look at our print book (available as eBook):
Brilliant Project Leader: What the Best Project Leaders Know, Do, and Say, to Get Results, every Time.

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[ashishverma]

This is an excellent video for someone who is transitioning from individual contributor to a people manager. Found it much helpful. Thanks for sharing it with the masses.

[projectnomind]

Excellent explanation. I just transitioned from Team lead to People Manager. This video was very helpful and has given me clear direction to lead my team.

[kemiuk]

Love this, very helpful and thanks so much...thumbs