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Time to GRIPE You want your firm to be more valuable at the end of the project than it was at the beginning.
M any of our clients turn to us for assistance in providing project management training. We offer numerous programs that train managers, but our favorite way to make your firm more successful is to grow and nurture leaders.
The following are the key elements of GRIPE: ❚ ❚ Goals. The goals of the project, team, studio, office, region, line of business, and firm are clearly com- municated, understood by all and are reviewed and measured to ensure success. ❚ ❚ Roles and responsibilities. The matrix of roles is clear to all. The hierarchy of responsibilities and au- thorities of the team, studio, office, line of “Create the pathway to principal that allows the young talent in your organization to participate in leadership opportunities.”
From the time your engineer in training, architect in training, or fresh minds embark on their new careers, communicating and setting expectations from day one is critical. Create the pathway to principal that allows the young talent in your organization to participate in leadership opportunities. If your organization is one that is driven by a clearer defined strategy, then you have moved beyond the acronym of TEAM and ascribe to the concept that drives strategic teaming: GRIPE. In the past, TEAM focused on the idea that Together Everyone Achieves More (and we then hold hands and sing “Kumbaya?”). If we’ve created goals but not delineated them, what’s the real “more” we’ve “achieved?”
Ted Maziejka
See TED MAZIEJKA, page 12
THE ZWEIG LETTER April 3, 2017, ISSUE 1194
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