Development Cooperation Handbook/Guidelines/How team members can improve overall project communication

How team members can improve overall project communication

Awareness

• Base communication strategies on stakeholder needs and feedback.
• Ensure that communication is shared in a timely manner.

Content

• Advocate open, honest, face-to-face, two-way communication.
• Create an environment where project team members and other stakeholders can constructively challenge behavior and ideas.

Context

• Remember that communication is two-way. Listen as well as deliver the message.
• Involve senior management when appropriate.

Communication flow

• Coordinate communication with project milestone events, activities, and results.
• Include key stakeholders in developing an interest-based conflict management process.

Effectiveness

• Conduct regular assessments of the communication plan and process.
• Communication must focus on the beneficiary.

Format and media

• Take advantage of existing communication vehicles and opportunities.
• The project team has a variety of methods to share information.

Tools

Templates

Applicant employee evaluation form
Staff Activity Forecast and Report
Interpersonal skill assessment
Employee Performance Review – Peer Review
Performance appraisal forms

Guidelines

Key Questions for Establishing the Team Organization
How to reach an agreement on the Employee Performance Objectives
How to manage motivated and effective teams
How to recognize if Team Building is successful
How to check the level of togetherness in a team
Measures to make teams more performing
The 5 steps of team creation
Checklist for Identifying Performance Problems

Why do organisations need to plan and manage their communication?
Measures to make teams more performing
Required characteristics of the project manager
The 10 Project Management Guiding Principles

See also

In other sections of this handbook
The employee empowering organization
Manage the Performance of Project Team Members
Team Conflict Management
Decision Making in Groups
Leading and Managing
Team Conflict Management
Decision Making in Groups
Project Managers and programme Managers
Determining the project manager