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Improving your projects using PDCA

Improving your projects using PDCA

From the course: Best Practices for Managing Global Projects

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Improving your projects using PDCA

- International project teams have a relatively high degree of turnover, which means team players are regularly meeting for the very first time. It takes a certain amount of time to learn how to communicate in an effective way with each other to maximize collaboration. To help you and your team better communicate, adopt the PDCA methodology. You probably know about this as plan, do, check, act, but for communication, think of it as plan, deliver, check, and adjust. By using this approach, we can reduce the opportunity for a misunderstanding. To start, plan the message you wanna deliver to the team member you need to interact with. To plan your message, answer these questions before communicating. What is the best way to communicate? Email? Phone or video? Can you meet with them face-to-face? Who is the person that will be receiving your message? What language do they speak? How much background and description should you include? What is the message you wanna send? And what do you…

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