3. Building the team
- Select staff for a project office, if not already assigned
- Identify team members and other stakeholders
- Prepare a team building strategy and provide leadership
- Be aware of personality styles/types to improve collaboration
- Hold a project start-up workshop for the core team
- Build the team's commitment to the objectives of the project
- Disseminate team members' roles and responsibilities
- Agree on procedures
- Keep the team motivated and manage core team meetings
- Analyze communications and perceptions within the team
- Use appropriate forms of power without formal authority
- Identify and resolve sources of conflict
- Similarly, plan and convene project launch workshop(s) for stakeholders