My wife knows better than to trust me to go into a coffee shop and order beverages - be they hot or cold - and get the order right. Or at least to her liking. But somehow she still trusts me. Even though she knows I can easily get lost in malls and I didn't really drink coffee drinks of any kind until just a few years ago. Still, she somehow trusts me and pushes me to give it a try with the confidence that I will get it right this time.
As project managers, we have to do the same with less experienced project team members. If we don't, they will never learn or grow professionally. I've learned this lesson slowly as a father of ten kids. I have to stop doing for them and instead instruct them and watch them fail sometimes and then begin to succeed more and more often and build confidence...just as my wife has done with me. (Maybe that means she has eleven kids!)
As project managers, we have to do the same with less experienced project team members. If we don't, they will never learn or grow professionally. I've learned this lesson slowly as a father of ten kids. I have to stop doing for them and instead instruct them and watch them fail sometimes and then begin to succeed more and more often and build confidence...just as my wife has done with me. (Maybe that means she has eleven kids!)
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