Brian Walch explains why defining your project objective first matters: without shared agreement on what success looks like between you, your team, and your organization, hard work still ends in disappointment. Alignment on the goal alone dramatically improves your chances of success.
We're talking about projects this week and using project thinking in the workplace. One of the reasons that I like projects is because with a project, you start with the end in mind. You need to clarify what is the objective that you're trying to reach. Have you ever taken on a project or an initiative at work or undertaken some effort and worked really hard at it, thought you did a good job, only to find out that other people weren't happy with the result? Well, with project thinking, what you do is at the beginning, define the objective and get agreement on that. And that process can be multifaceted. It can be with yourself. What are you hoping to get out of that project? It can be with your team and it can be with the organization, but making sure that all the stakeholders and people involved agree what success looks like for the project. That process alone can help the project succeed because everybody agrees on what you're striving for and what you're trying to do. So lesson number one when you're applying project thinking is define your objectives and make sure everybody agrees on what success looks like for the project before diving in. And starting tomorrow, we'll be continuing this and we'll be talking about milestones. We'll see you then.
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