Remove the Rose-Colored Glasses and Evaluate Your PM MO by Anticlue

Self inspection is a good thing for a project manager and healthcare it gurus alike. I would highly recommend taking the month of February and consider your habits, strengths and weakness. A little self inspection can help you develop personally and professionally. We'll just look at the project management leader here.

Like all good planning, self inspection and discovery takes a bit of time. Let us focus upon 4 key concepts - Reduce, Remove, Grow, and Create.

First, from a professional perspective which aspects should I reduce, because truthfully, I may have out grown them or these behaviors do not have professional value. Imagine this scenario, in my first one on one session with a new director, I walked into his office. To my surprise, I find the bookshelves and desktop covered - not with papers and books but with wind-up toys. He starts out asking for an update on the projects and where they were - Very professional guy, but it was hard to find an opening to ascertain why he had hundreds of toys in his office. One item that I have worked hard to reduce professional is my sarcastic humor, I have a dead-paned way of getting a sarcastic joke across. However, as I have developed professional, this trait sometimes is perceived as intimidating, so I have reduced it significantly.

Next is choosing to remove or eliminate behavior traits or skill sets. There is technical wizardry or old school leadership techniques, which now are just not a fit anymore for us professionally. For example, I am not the wizard of the web, as I have wandered through my career journey, I just have not kept up technically. It was hard, but I no longer claim to be a technical web and development wizard. On your end, perhaps it is time to take a look at those skills, is it worth being a windows 2000 expert now-a-days?

Now let's talk a bit about growth and development, what skills or items are you doing but could be spruced up a bit. Are you fastidious about delivering the status report on time every week? Are you a good listener? How about a good coach? Do you have many different ways to influence in your tool chest or is everything a nail, and your only tool a hammer? One of the items, I am working upon improving is my email response management. I am an email addict, but for those items which I can help or respond that I need time to find out. This year, I am letting the individual know, instead of just awaiting to receive my response with full detail. It helps with clarifying and managing expectations. The other item, I am developing is a sense of curiosity regarding technical approaches and in place processes. I am focused upon delving a bit more into the details for my understanding of why and what has been in place. My other growth opportunity, is I am dedicated to understanding and knowing is the hospital and private practice business model. For operations I would like to understand from women's health to strategic marketing, and from a colleagues's perspective from the hospitalists to department administrators. What skills would you like to grow and develop?

Finally, what new skill would you like to create within yourself? Is there a new bleeding edge technology that you find fascinating? Are you good at facilitating through conflicts? Do you take up every challenge head on? Never awaiting to see how things will layout? My new skill or development is to create development opportunities for others, basically I want to pay it forward. So I will help individuals on their project management and heatlhcare it journey. For teammates, I'll help them find opportunities to develop and learn new skills. On your side, are there new skills or practices you would like to create within yourself?

Please share your insights and suggestions, we love to hear your story.

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