The amount of training can dictate how successful project management is in your organization's culture.

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HOW DO LEADERS INFLUENCE
YOUR ORGANIZATION’S CULTURE?
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The amount of training can dictate how successful project management is in
your organization's culture. If taught what they need to know your
project-management staff will be more knowledgeable and skilled along with
having more discipline to do their jobs. Training is only one faction in your
organizational culture though. Many things figure into you being able to
deliver projects in a satisfactory manner. Two of these things happen to be
culture and structure.
Culture Dramatically Impacts the Success Rate You Achieve
The culture of your organization dramatically impacts the success rate you
achieve. I am not just talking about one particular project when I say this.
This goes for all the projects going on inside the organization. All culture
means is in what manner things are performed in the organization. Culture
will affect projects in many ways.
Are Your Processes Good?
Make sure your organization has effective processes in place for the people
to be guided by. This will be the most important factor in the success of a
project. When your organization uses an effective project-management
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process, it will have success more often on any of the projects it undertakes.
The whole project team typically understands how to develop and go by a
plan, and should know how to utilize the general processes to successfully
scope out changes, deal with issues and effectively cope with risk.
Control
Some organizations have the processes mentioned above but their people
do not follow them. Simply put, control is the function of management to see
the people are doing the things they should be doing. If the organization's
management structure is searching out projects and involved in them, and
your project managers are making sure the necessary processes are being
followed, then the organization will be more successful. On the other hand if
each of the project managers are left on their own and are only supported in
a disorganized fashion, you will be at risk for failing big time.
Training
There are those organizations that do not do a good job training their
project managers. Their overall training is usually not the best either. When
your project managers lack the proper skills, you will be more likely to fail
than to succeed. Learn more by downloading our free whitepaper, Secrets of
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What their Roles Are
When the organizations are successful the people understand what their
roles are with the various projects and the duties they are supposed to
perform. This not only involves the clients, but the stakeholders and
sponsors too. The sponsors need to watch over the quality of their project in
the organization. If the project manager is left in a vacuum when the
projects are going on then the organization will not have success on a
continual basis.
Culture plays the more major role in whether your organization can be
successful with its projects. If the projects are not finished in a successful
manner, the project managers are not the ones to blame. They are working
within a culture that is not supporting them enough in their efforts. All of top
management must evaluate the effectiveness of the culture involved with
the failing projects. If the culture does not change the project managers will
continue to have a hard time succeeding.
Your organization structure could hamper you from having success too. This
structure usually sets the way for how effectively you work on the projects
and how well you can share resources with other organizations.
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