Project success, you bet!

7th May 2018

What gives us sometimes the unerring feeling that a project will work out well? And then things develop that way too. Even if the challenges seem overwhelming. If even during the course adverse events of the project cannot throw us off track.

Maybe you know the feeling from sports. Sometimes in the morning in front of a competition you have the relaxed feeling that you and your team can win today.

This form of confidence because you have done everything in your power, you are very well prepared and you get the right support. Then you give the best and you let go. This kind of self-fulfilling prophecy leads you through the day.

At the beginning of something new, we want to gain clarity about what and how

A good task clarification is certainly the nuts and bolts of a project. But just when you do not know each other, then some interpretations go nowhere. So if my gut tells me that I’ve got full support, then it’s often more important than if having it’s been told that.

If the casting process for the new task triggers confidence and a successful film in us, then it is due to emotions. Many events are positively anticipated in advance. Our imagination does not know any other way. At the same time the corporate world in form of political environment and key contact persons leaves us no other way.

Does the client give us important additional information, e.g. concerning conflicts of interest or precursor projects, this contributes to clarity and further confidence building. The client also wants to find clear indications of our predictable, trustworthy behavior. This OK-OK situation cannot be achieved on paper. It is due to our mutual behavior and sense. With the confirmation of expectations, predictability and a little tolerance for mistakes and peculiarities we reach a flow. And the project success will soon gain profile.

Project success training – “Easy is right, even if it’s hard to reach”*

In this sense, it is always worthwhile to pay attention to good feelings and easy access to the tasks. And when it seems necessary to work on it. It’s like in sports. Training of project success is training of the mental setup for succeed, too.

*Wolfgang Schröder