Human sensors
Managing a project is not gag-a-minute, sunshine-dappled and rose-sprinkled bed of fun-filled meetings.
It’s detailed, tedious, largely thankless, and it sticks someone’s head boldly over the parapet…
Travelling the road it isn’t possible to look out all the windows all of the time.
Necessarily, your attention is focused forward, keeping your eyes on what’s ahead as you work your way to whatever distant horizon you’ve chosen to aim for. You flick to the mirrors for a general awareness and specific manoeuvres but, you and everyone around you knows, there are blind spots.
You add some sensors.
Financial, operational reporting, manufacturing calibrations, factory gate checks. Systems and processes that monitor and assess, that raise alarms when anything gets out of an acceptable operating tolerance.
For everything else, human sensors.
Better positioned to see and hear what you don’t, and confident enough to show you what’s in the mirror. About the team, about the world, and critically … about you.
The key skill – listening so you know where to look.
Skippy strategy: Build systems to fill the blind spots.
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Teams
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