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Outlining effective team membership

Outlining effective team membership

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Outlining effective team membership

- As the project manager, you need to set the example and here are some guidelines that I suggest you communicate to the rest of the team as well as emulate yourself. Having an effective teams means that all the members are participating and they're playing by the same rules. It is essential that people take responsibility. There's no room for blaming other people on a project. That doesn't mean that mistakes don't often involve more than one person but it's not about finger pointing or ducking on blame. You need to take responsibility for what's yours and oftentimes you need to take responsibility for others. As the project manager, you're pretty much always to blame if something goes wrong. That doesn't mean an individual team member didn't affect this but you can't blame other people because it's your job to manage things. You also need to make sure that people understand follow through. A made commitment…

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