Change with Confidence: Answers to the 50 Biggest Questions that Keep Change Leaders Up at Night

Chapter 18

How Do I Get the Best People to Join the Project Team?

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

—Maya Angelou

Selecting the best team members for your project is critical: you need people with the skills, knowledge, and attitude to make a project successful. Once you have identified the profiles you are looking for, your challenge is to sell the benefits of your project to managers of candidates and the leadership team so that they approve your ideal secondments. This done, your role is then to ensure that your project delivers on these benefits by personally monitoring team members' development plans.

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