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In Part 1 of this two-part series, we examined the first two of five ways to ensure project profitability: having a spine and knowing your cost of doing business. In this second part, we’ll look at three more ways.
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We wear so many hats as project managers over the course of our projects and our careers. I don’t want to make PMs sound like superheroes because we aren’t. We often have to be a ‘jack of all trades’ and if you lack the ability or confidence to take on multiple roles (often several at the same time) then perhaps the PM world isn’t for you. In order to negotiate project success we must be resource managers, taskmasters, salespeople, conflict resolvers, workflow managers, documentation specialists, business analysts, tech gurus on some projects (or at least talk the talk), wise and on-the-spot decision-makers.
Whether you know it or not, project negotiation simply goes with the territory. If you are a project manager you probably don’t even realize how often you are negotiating for something to help your engagement along to keep the customer happy or to get the right team member added for an upcoming project task. It happens more often than we realize. And if you aren’t already a good negotiator, you better work on getting there because some type of negotiation is required of the project manager and possibly even some of the project team members on nearly every single project.
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