Your project sponsor informed you that you have to deliver your project much sooner than anticipated. When you break the news to your team, they are not happy with the decision; they are concerned that the project will now fail. Using the information from the readings, what can you do as a leader to reassure your project team that this is the right thing to do? What will you do to motivate them?

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Build relationships before you need them.

2. Identify key players and what you can do to help them.
4. Project managers must understand how the project affects other activities and agendas inside and outside the organization and see it from a systems perspective.
6. Project managers need regular communication with critical stakeholders to keep abreast of developments, assuage concerns, engage in reality testing, and focus on the project. Frequent face-to-face interactions, either directly or by teleconferencing, affirm mutual respect and trust in each other.

• Innovate and maintain stability.
• See the big picture while getting their hands dirty.
• Encourage individuals but stress the team.
• Be hands-off/hands-on.
• Be flexible but firm.
• Manage team versus organizational loyalties.