Everything fine in a project... until it's not! How do you communicate with your line manager or sponsor that you are at capacity and can't take on more work?
Welcome to The Everyday Project Manager's Q&A series.
Nicola Spooner of The Search Project asks Jeremy: What advice would you give to a project manager on how to tell someone that they can't do any more within their current capacity?
In this video The Everyday Project Manager covers:
- Managing upwards
- Communications and stakeholder relationships
- Building good relationships with your line manager and sponsor
- Jeremy's real world experiences of what has happened during his career when he's had too much work on
We have some really helpful tips and a slightly unhelpful one too! Take 3 minutes to see how Jeremy has managed this in the past and see if his experience can help you out too.
Links to relevant resources:
- Video: Sponsor & Project Manager: What's the Difference? • Explainer: Sponsor and...
- Blog: Staying in Lane (Working within a Team) everydaypm.co....
- Blog: Nice Guys Don't Finish Last everydaypm.co....
- Free PM templates and tools: everydaypm.co....
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