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SKILL SIX

How to Motivate the Right Team Behaviors

The ABC Boxes

Skill Six is probably the quintessential skill for project leaders because it addresses the one factor that can make or break projects: team behavior. If you don’t have a plan for managing team behavior, you’re leaving the fate of your project to luck or hope. You’re hoping that people will get along, show the right behaviors, and not have any bad people problems. This is known as wishful thinking or ad hoc people management, and it’s not the strategy you want to use.

You can’t leave behavior to chance and assume everyone will work together well. What is your strategy for identifying, ...

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