How to choose your implementation project manager

How to choose your implementation project manager

Tips for selecting your project manager

Enthusiasm

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.

Calm under pressure

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.

Time

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.

Leadership skills

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.

Access to decision-makers

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.

Understanding of your processes

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.

Communication skills

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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