The unintentional, and intentional, strategic misrepresentations by project team members and stakeholders that can result in distortions, biases and untruths. This is often driven by self-preservation to manage politics and power dynamics or due to organisational culture and information deficits. Understanding the drivers, impact and how to avoid them is an issue for leaders and project professionals alike.
Overview
In an increasingly complex and dynamic world, finding clarity in projects is critical to project success. Building an accurate picture of your project’s past, present and future is the only way to identify risks early, deal with issues effectively and make clear, unbiased, objective decisions.
The Power of Clarity will focus on the drivers of project clarity and how to achieve it. This includes:
- Behavioural themes: The unintentional, and intentional, strategic misrepresentations by project team members and stakeholders that can result in distortions, biases and untruths. This is often driven by self-preservation to manage politics and power dynamics or due to organisational culture and information deficits. Understanding the drivers, impact and how to avoid them is an issue for leaders and project professionals alike.
- Organisational themes: Projects and organisations need to provide psychological safety for their teams. This allows for diverse voices to be heard, problems to be highlighted early and the truth, however unpalatable it might be, to be told. Effective decisions and project clarity rely on a psychologically safe environment.
- Technical themes: Effective project controls give us clarity through accurate scheduling, planning, monitoring and risk management. The dynamic and complex nature of the project environment means that establishing and maintaining clarity is central challenge in all projects. The use of Data and Artificial Intelligence that make project controls and reporting more instant and provide deeper insights is changing the skills we need to interpret and act effectively.
Projects and organisations need to provide psychological safety for their teams. This allows for diverse voices to be heard, problems to be highlighted early and the truth, however unpalatable it might be, to be told. Effective decisions and project clarity rely on a psychologically safe environment.
Effective project controls give us clarity through accurate scheduling, planning, monitoring and risk management. The dynamic and complex nature of the project environment means that establishing and maintaining clarity is central challenge in all projects. The use of Data and Artificial Intelligence that make project controls and reporting more instant and provide deeper insights is changing the skills we need to interpret and act effectively.