Are you feeling overwhelmed by the constant demand to deliver your core responsibilities while working on one or more projects? If you answered Yes to this question, you are not alone.
In my experience, this is one of the most challenging experiences for individuals who are not “full-time” project resources. Based on 1:2:1 interviews with project team members, 3 Common Themes Summarize Their Experiences:
While leadership assigned you to work on a project, they often to do not account for or modify the expectations. You are often still required to meet the expectations of your role to include deadlines,
workflows, and client/customer service engagements.
The Agile style of project work often requires a learning curve to adapt to the pace of work, frequency of check-in meetings, and the language/acronyms of project teams compared to core responsibilities which are familiar and standardized. Additionally, the retooling of skillsets and competencies for project work is often not accounted for when onboarding project resources.
To combat the competing forces, individuals often turn to working more hours which leads to the erosion of their work life balance that can cascade into more external pressures for the individual. The stress is compounded when you factor in the individual’s performance plan that has not been updated to account for the expanded responsibilities.
Empowerment is driven by an accurate and concise assessment of the individual’s work capacity.
Communicating the assessment results should yield the following take-aways:
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