This is a message for all business owners, entrepreneurs, project managers… and basically anyone else out there who has a big task to accomplish. I know you have it tough. Projects are big and unwieldy. It’s hard to start. It’s hard to gain momentum. It’s hard to maintain momentum. It’s hard to juggle everything and get the project successfully completed. But projects ARE completed successfully even though they looked daunting at the beginning.
So, how can you give your daunting, unwieldy project a fighting chance at success? I’ll give you one of the top secrets to make it happen: “Just get started”.
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At IAC Professionals, we have a 90 day training period, where our Virtual Assistants are put through a boot camp, for lack of a better term. During those 90 days, they don’t work with clients, rather they work on small tasks that are assigned to them, and part of a larger project, while supervised by a project manager. This time period gives us a chance to see (and possibly work on) their professionalism, response time and abilities. Our project managers are patient individuals, and spend time making sure that the client is happy with the end result. This 90 days allows us to assure that if they were to work directly with a client, they would give the professionalism, efficient response and work quality that our clients demand.
In order to be able to have this period, we need a steady flow of project related work, so when the volume is low or when we have an exceptionally large amount of candidates in the training period, we hop on over to Elance and see if there are any projects that would be ideal for us.
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A good project manager tries to keep a project on track. But no project is flawless and there are always elements that threaten to disrupt, derail, or even destroy the project. That’s why, at the very beginning and at strategic points throughout the project, a good project manager needs to think the worst… and then mitigate against it.
Project managers need to be optimists in order to plan a lofty goal and keep everyone working towards it. But they also need to be pessimists to try and come up with the top reasons why a project might be derailed, and part of their planning needs to consider how to minimize or eliminate those derailing elements. Click here to read more »
