36 ORGANISE A PARTY

One of your roles as a project manager is to keep the team motivated throughout the project, so that they continue to meet deadlines and turn in quality work. The end of a project, after your final team meeting, can seem like an anti-climax to those people who have been working on it for months, sometimes years. They will quickly forget any little treats or motivational rewards that you organised during the project. Do something else to mark the end.

It is important to give the end of your project a sense of finality, especially if your project got canned. Team members are likely to feel that they have wasted their time and that their efforts went unnoticed. The official end of a project, whether it ran its natural course ...

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