Working on projects can be stressful so how do you stay inspired and motivated?
enter project management quotes, and stick around to the end of this video
where I'm going to give you an amazing download on how to hit productivity out
of the park, hi if you're new here welcome, my name is Adriana Girdler, a
productivity specialist and a project management professional,
I love quotes, and what I'm gonna share with you today are tons of quotes that I
use in my own projects, I peppered them everywhere, PowerPoint presentations,
sometimes I put them out in posters, whatever it takes to inspire my team so
that they can go to the distance and make our project successful, so let's get
to it, leave no stone unturned, I use this particular quote particularly at the
beginning of a project when we're creating project plans, the devils in the
details, and I really want my team members who are the subject matter
experts to really look at everything possible so I can ensure we are looking
at what needs to be looked at to minimize our risk, so this one is
something I do in the beginning of presentations, in my powerpoints even at
the beginning of an exercise just to remind my team, please
devils in the details, do not leave any stone unturned, "give me six hours to chop
down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe" this is another
one that I also used at the beginning of projects there's a lot of people who
don't understand that, that again the devils in the details as I said in quote
number one, but you really need to put the time upfront with that project plan,
there are times when I'm told, start this project, but I don't do a kickoff till a
month later because of all the preparatory and investigative work that
has to have happen, it just makes life so much easier, I'm curious to know what do
you think of that quote? have you.. would you use it in a different way?
"failing to plan is planning to fail" I use this for specific projects and
organizations that I do work with because you have to understand, as a
consultant I work with tons of organizations,
and I find when it comes to project management there's two types, those that
get project management and understand it fully and I don't have to try to teach
them about it, and those who are not project management oriented, usually with
those organizations that are not project management oriented I really do this
quote because they don't understand why it takes time for the planning part and
if I just remind them and use this quote pepperd again within the PowerPoint and
also at the beginning, with my stakeholders, makes a huge difference. "how
does a project get to be a year late? one day at a time" again I use this kind of
in the beginning, in the middle of a project, really in the beginning because
when we're looking at timing, I really need people to kind of think about what
did they think is gonna have happen, I don't need details because I can through
agile methodology figure out how that's gonna be done, but I need to report back
into a stakeholder to figure out what is the timing associated with it, that all
being said, understanding timing and not being clear with it does lead to
projects being late and that's not what you want to do, so just reminding people
the importance of it when we are running late, I always say give me some
alternatives on how to shorten those timelines accordingly and this quote,
really helps' the road to success is always under construction',. I really use
this for my project team members I find sometimes people have an unrealistic
expectation that once you have a project plan, boom
it's perfect, why are we even looking at it again, well it's called life and it's
called business changes, scope changes, and you know what you have to be
flexible, you have to be agile, you have to be nimble so I just remind people
that even though we're going down a path there's nothing wrong with us having to
switch something up, really to ensure that we're getting what we need to get
done so just remember it's always under construction it's not a bad thing. 'coming
together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success',
projects are not just about a plan, they're about the people, the subject
matter experts who are on your team, you can have the best laid out plan but
if team is not working together then guess
what, who cares, you're gonna come across and major issues so right away this is
something I create and use this quote throughout my project from, start to end,
just to remind people the importance of being a team working together as one
unit. 'the way a team plays as a whole determines its success you may have the
greatest bunch of individual stars in the world but if they don't play
together the club won't be worth a dime', so this is for all the divas out there,
don't be a diva on a project, I'm telling you it is really detrimental and it will
kill any sort of teamwork that you try to establish really going back to being
a team like that one that last quote I just did I interchange those all the
time really reminding my team the importance of us being together you may
be a subject matter expert on a certain item but as a team we work together, so
you may even cross over to an area to help another team member, even though
it's not your specialty, because why, it's how we work collectively as one unit, not
as an individual, that is going to determine success. 'you are the key to our
project success' this is actually my quote I use this all the time throughout
the project, particularly at the beginning, I want to remind people I may
be their project manager but I'm not the one who's going to determine success, the
success determined on the people on the team, so they are the road to success,
without them this project would not be able to move forward, so something that I
use all the time, I recommend that you use it to, take it, it's yours to use. now
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