How to choose your implementation project manager

Tips for selecting your project manager

Choose someone who has a positive attitude, and who wants this project to be successful.

Enthusiasm and positivity are infectious. Conversely, if you appoint someone who doesn’t want to

take on the project, their negativity will affect everyone involved.

Setbacks happen. How you handle setbacks makes all the difference. Your project manager should

be able to remain calm and appear to be in control if something doesn’t work as planned or if

decisions need to be made.

Your implementation could require as little as 2 hours a week, or upwards of 4-6 hours a week for

meetings, exporting or gathering your data, and cleaning up your data. Your project manager needs

to be able to dedicate time to the implementation, or be able to delegate tasks to others.

You don’t necessarily need to make someone on your leadership team the project manager, but your

project manager needs to be someone with leadership skills.

Appoint someone on your leadership team or who has easy access to your decision-makers. If it takes

2 days for your project manager to get approval on decisions, that will delay your implementation.

Choose someone who knows what you do and how you do it. Alternately they need to have the

authority to convene internal meetings to discover your processes and document them.

Your project manager is the information conduit! They need to be able to answer questions for your

implementation specialist, and to keep your team informed.

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