From the challenging stakeholder who wants to undermine the project’s success to a disagreement about a feature of a deliverable, project work lends itself to workplace conflict situations. In all of these examples, you are going to be able to think up your situations where conflict might arise based on what you see on your projects. The project manager and functional managers You’ve made it to the end of the project, and now you’re handing over to business as usual teams and closing the project down.
Key Takeaways:
- From the difficult stakeholder who wants to undermine the project’s success to a disagreement about a feature of a deliverable, project work lends itself to workplace conflict situations.
- We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control.
- First up, the Concept or Initiation Phase. This is at the start of the project while you are working out exactly what is going to happen.
“Lack of strategic direction and leadership was another biggie, with 14% reporting that was a cause of conflict on their projects. Miscommunication and misunderstandings in the team came in at 12%, followed by budget issues and responses to change both taking 9% of the responses.”
