Progress slows when the room is full but the right voices are missing. In this episode, How to Get the Right People in the Room so Progress Happens, I talk through how leadership improves when we identify the real business owner, map influence instead of hierarchy, and build meetings that support communication and decision making. I share lessons from healthcare, emergency response, and IT, and how the best leaders I have worked with trusted their teams, stepped in only when needed, and created space for others to lead.
Main Points
- Progress depends on who is invited into the room
- Titles do not always reveal who understands the work
- Influence mapping helps keep meetings focused
- Purpose and expectation shape participation
- Strong leaders empower teams, not meetings
Thank you for listening or watching How to Get the Right People in the Room so Progress Happens. I hope this helps you right size and right level your program and project teams this week.
To read more about leading program and project teams read The People, Process, & Progress of Project Management. Get your copy on Amazon at https://a.co/d/f0vUiUl
Godspeed y’all,
Kevin

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