OFW guide: How to tackle big projects
Big projects can be a major headache especially if it is one of the company’s priorities and a lot of money is involved in it.
It also doesn’t help that big projects often have extremely tight deadlines that need to be beaten just to make sure that the project proposal is accepted by your clients.
According to the Yahoo news site, a big project should be started by organizing your thoughts and putting up a plan out of it.
It adds that writing down all the things you need into a list will be helpful in pursuing your goal.
Meanwhile, business site Inc. compiled a list of additional tips to help you tackle big projects easily.
(1) Identify your weaknesses
Do you like to cram? Are you a profound procrastinator? Do you usually have a hard time agreeing with other people on the team?
Whatever your weakness is, identify it and find out how you could manage to work on the project without it being a hindrance.
It would be good to ask a fellow employee whom you trust to evaluate you as he might provide you with a good insight about yourself.
By getting to know yourself better, you can search for roundabout solutions to your weaknesses.
(2) Start from finish
While the usual method of doing a project is starting from scratch by gathering ideas, it would save time if you would start at the end of your project.
Think big and skip starting steps that take up a huge chunk of time. This will help you save time, energy and resources.
You can also determine if the project is worth doing if you start from the end.
(3) Settle for good
Not that we are promoting mediocrity but every project, especially big ones, don’t have to be presented perfectly.
It’s okay to have a few minor flaws. Settling for something good enough is not a sin, it’s normal and practical.
If you don’t know how to settle for enough, it will eat your team’s time and will produce little to no improvements on the project.
What’s worse, once you perfect one segment of the project, you’ll opt to perfect all the other segments. The question is, do you have enough time to be consistently perfect?
(4) Balance the workload
Help yourself by delegating tasks to team members equally. If one member is good at a particular thing, assign it to him.
It’s also important that there is no mismatch with the assignments to your team members’ skills because this will result in low production.
Delegating your work also gives them a sense of responsibility as you are giving them your trust and confidence.
(5) Reward yourself
Although many would like to think that a job well done is already a good motivator, there’s no better motivator than a reward.
Rewards push people to work harder, better and faster with less worries on their minds.
It allows them to think of doing the project to reach the end goal: the reward. - Andrei Medina, VVP, GMA News
It also doesn’t help that big projects often have extremely tight deadlines that need to be beaten just to make sure that the project proposal is accepted by your clients.
According to the Yahoo news site, a big project should be started by organizing your thoughts and putting up a plan out of it.
It adds that writing down all the things you need into a list will be helpful in pursuing your goal.
Meanwhile, business site Inc. compiled a list of additional tips to help you tackle big projects easily.
(1) Identify your weaknesses
Do you like to cram? Are you a profound procrastinator? Do you usually have a hard time agreeing with other people on the team?
Whatever your weakness is, identify it and find out how you could manage to work on the project without it being a hindrance.
It would be good to ask a fellow employee whom you trust to evaluate you as he might provide you with a good insight about yourself.
By getting to know yourself better, you can search for roundabout solutions to your weaknesses.
(2) Start from finish
While the usual method of doing a project is starting from scratch by gathering ideas, it would save time if you would start at the end of your project.
Think big and skip starting steps that take up a huge chunk of time. This will help you save time, energy and resources.
You can also determine if the project is worth doing if you start from the end.
(3) Settle for good
Not that we are promoting mediocrity but every project, especially big ones, don’t have to be presented perfectly.
It’s okay to have a few minor flaws. Settling for something good enough is not a sin, it’s normal and practical.
If you don’t know how to settle for enough, it will eat your team’s time and will produce little to no improvements on the project.
What’s worse, once you perfect one segment of the project, you’ll opt to perfect all the other segments. The question is, do you have enough time to be consistently perfect?
(4) Balance the workload
Help yourself by delegating tasks to team members equally. If one member is good at a particular thing, assign it to him.
It’s also important that there is no mismatch with the assignments to your team members’ skills because this will result in low production.
Delegating your work also gives them a sense of responsibility as you are giving them your trust and confidence.
(5) Reward yourself
Although many would like to think that a job well done is already a good motivator, there’s no better motivator than a reward.
Rewards push people to work harder, better and faster with less worries on their minds.
It allows them to think of doing the project to reach the end goal: the reward. - Andrei Medina, VVP, GMA News
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