Ep.262 - Helping a Struggling Team!

Jason uses the metaphor of keeping a horse's head up on steep mountain trails to explain how to recover troubled projects and keep teams focused. Three key components are required: cohesive multiplier leadership, teams embracing five crucial behaviors, and strenuous but achievable performance goals. He shares three project recovery examples including removing leaders who prevented accountability and teams that became regional tour destinations after implementing Patrick Lencioni systems.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Three components for recovery: Cohesive multiplier leaders, five behaviors, strenuous performance goals
• PM and super must be united: Go to lunch twice weekly, get proximity, become friends or nothing else works
• Five crucial behaviors: Trust, healthy conflict, goal setting, accountability, performance in that order
• Focus on what teams can control: Keep eyes on contract work not uncontrollable change order volumes
• Sometimes leaders must be removed: Even on 200 million dollar projects if they prevent accountability
• Patrick Lencioni books turn teams around: Motive, Five Dysfunctions, Death by Meeting, Advantage provide vocabulary and systems

If project team senses PM and superintendent are not cohesive nothing else will work, that relationship is foundation.

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