The Project Management Office (PMO) of Pinellas County must use the following two-step process to create a highly effective and efficient team. The scope of the project must be defined and human capital needs must be outlined to ensure the expertise and skills needed to successfully meet the objectives are acquired through the talent management process to build the team. The following criteria must be demonstrated to be considered as a candidate for the team.
1. Creativity
The PMO is in need of innovators, who think creatively. Creativity is highly associated with “intelligence, motivation, ambition, persistence, commitment, determination, education and curiosity” (Thompson, 2014).
2. Brainstorming Skills
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Obstacles cause team members to become angry, scared, and difficult to work with. If not resolved, these barriers can cause a decline in morale resulting in a decline in productivity. The County is currently facing many challenges that has caused conflict within teams, such as, rising poverty, lack of funding, and budget deficits. Stressful issues causing conflict can be handled with an effective conflict management strategy.
Continuous utilization of conflict management strategies will help the PMO to ensure conflict is being kept at a minimum. Effective conflict management should identify the conflict and its effect on team’s performance and outcomes. Understanding the issues and developing a plan that is mutually beneficial to both parties can help create a lean communication environment and prevent the conflict from recurring.
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• Individual project staff members who will be responsible for managing project individual tasks such as project design, cost, budget, schedule, construction reviews, quality control and assurance, procurement, communications, and project execution, permitting and acquisitions, contract monitoring, and project oversight.
2. Roles must be defined in each subset of the project to have a clear trajectory of the direction of work that must be done. Once it is determined that a team is desirable for the work and viable within the organization, the manager must then focus intently on three concepts: the work that team will do, the people who will do the work, and the procedures and processes that the team will follow to achieve their goal (Thompson, 2015). Project team members and outside sources may be responsible for task or share in the responsibility. Once responsibilities are agreed upon, training if need be, should be arranged and workgroups assembled. In tactical and problem-solving teams, members who work and train together perform better than do teams whose members are equally skilled but do not train together (Thompson,