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Project Management: less process skills , more people skills

admin — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 10:59:47 +0000

Opleidingen

In every project management training, you will learn about processes and how to employ them. Prince2, PMP, PMBok… The attention for processes is overwhelming.

Don’t get me wrong here: the process is important, and a good addition for every project. But, it is, and for me will always be, just a good addition.

In every project, you work for a custome, with a team and stakeholders – people – who each have their own way of working, values and standards, which they bring into the orgnisation. As an (interim) project manager, you simply have to deal with it all.

Supporting processes

Processes are there to support you in your work, i.e. by means of setting scope boundaries or goals. The most important aspect, remains your ability to work with the team, the people around it and the organisation. Do you have the flexibility to adjust, adapt and still get results? Are you able to find different ways through the structure of the organisation to achieve what is needed? Are you able to adjust, whilst still being loyal to your own methods and style? So, for who are you doing exactly that: for the customer, or the goal?

Lesson 1: Dealing with people

As a project manager, you want to guide the organisation through desired or required improvements. With every project you perform, there is one complex aspect: the people involved.

In modern project management trainings, this aspect is touched, but no more than that: touched. Do you want to get a good job done, whilst enjoying it together with your team? Well, you need to educate – and train(!) – yourself more in soft skills and focus less on processes in a project. And if you want to learn properly? By all means, do leave your comfort-zone on this topic.

So that’s my opinion. How do you do this in your work?

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Boshuis.eu from Sole Proprietorship to Limited Company

admin — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:42:52 +0000

Start

As many professionals, I started Boshuis.eu, 3.5 years ago, as a Sole Proprietoship. That legal construction gave me the chance to build some experience in being entrepeneur. I was executing some nice projects, and learned skills like accounting, and other things I needed to learn in order to run a company.

Cooperation, extension of work and financial wishes

Now the time has come for Boshuis.eu to start cooperations with other companies. And the risks coming with that, are hard to manage in the current legal construction, leading to me personally being financially accountable. That aside, currently I am developing activities that don’t fit in the goals and plans of Boshuis.eu. Soon there will be a coaching company named Simply Be, for example. And for the furter future, there are already more plans!

Also, I have some financial desires that are very expensive to achieve with the current construction, like a (reliable!) pension in some form, or a buffer for less fortunate times.

Time to go for a Limited Company!

Teaming up with an accountant, after having some chats with other entrepeneurs, Boshuis.eu will transform into a Ltd, enabling a better spread of risks, better managed personal accountability and a chance to start cooperations with a proper contractual basis. At the same time, this supports my financial desires, decreasing risks on the longer term too.

Are you also looking to be ‘future proof’ as a company? Make sure you know what you want, gat advice, dive in to obtain knowledge, and go talk to an accountant. Who knows where you might end up!

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Work and Energy

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 13:39:32 +0000

Giving and receiving energy

In any type and kind of work, you give energy to your employer or customer. That’s what you get paid for, so to say. But, stopping there does not do right to the broader situation. Working is more of an exchange of energy, and there should be a good balance in it. Not just for you, but also for your family, and of course your customer!

Projects and energy

Also for me as a contractor the balance between given and received energy is a crucial factor. I tend to give a lot of energy, and usually I receive a lot of energy in return from the project. In fact, this exchange of enery is the difference between a successful project and a less successful one. The energy I am able to give is in my experience directly linked to the energy I recieve, enabling me to make a project a success or failure.

Professional Guts

Being a contractor, I am constantly judging the balance in energy received and energy given. Sure, temporarily the balance can be slightly (or a bit more) off, but it needs to return to a proper status quo. Should the belance be off for a longer period of time, and is it affecting your work, then I say you should consider whether you are the ‘right person in the situation’. Difficult? For sure! For it is questioning the assurance of having a contract that pais the bill. But, looking back, I see exactly where my decision to leave was overdue, or even where I should not have worked at all. It shows in what it has brought me, or cost me, and mostly in the result of the project.

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