Co-ordinator Role:
Becoming a Master Manager in
the one-person Owner/Manager Business: 3 of 9 articles
Introduction ● Director Role ● Producer Role ● Co-ordinator Role ● Monitor Role ● Mentor
Role ● Facilitator Role ● Innovator Role ● Broker Role ● Integration
and the Road to Mastery
[1]
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Becoming-Master-Manager-Competing-Approach/dp/0470284668
[2] www.apm.org.uk
Association of Project Managers (APM). Ex-council member.
Introduction:
The article is based on the book [1] a “Competency Framework”. Its evolution
and eight roles that a Manager should be doing day-to-day. These will be
explained in each article, this being the third of nine. The hard part
is honesty and self-analysis and doing each step.
Co-ordinator Role: Planning, Organising, and Controlling.
Planning: Together with Time Management helps
to make decisions on what will be done first and by who and in agreement with
related parties.
Assessment:
Work to plan on a spreadsheet, even when it is in your head.
Learning: Keep the plan right as per the Client Brief with updates.
Analysis: Feedback from the Client.
Practice: The more you do it, the better you become.
Application: Deliverables on agreed dates and approved.
Organizing: With the Client, defining what is
wanted and who does what.
Assessment: The Client brief is the bible.
Learning: How to approach others, without waving the stick (Client
Brief).
Analysis: Working with others to get it right.
Practice: Organising what you need from other parties takes practice.
Clients try it on so refer to the Brief.
Application: Needs constructive questions and answers.
Controlling: Output to and from the Client.
Assessment: Sometimes too many people with contact information.
The result of sending to much output to the Client.
Learning: Not allowing information overload.
Analysis: Different approaches for different
Clients.
Practice: Over time develop these approaches.
Application: Learning to stay in control, but not be aggressive or
argumentative.
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