Sydney was a newly hired project manager at a consulting firm.She has previous experience working on project teams but had neverled a project on her own. She has only been with the firm for twoweeks and has spent a week of that time in onboarding. Her manager,the head of operations, has just assigned her to a rather largeproject. The project is to evaluate the current processes in usewithin the organization specifically focused in two areas: newservice development and client engagement. Sydney was told toselect who she needed to work on the project and reach out to themanagers of both groups to get the project started. The Problem:While excited about the opportunity, Sydney realized she had a fewchallenges ahead: • She has had no time to establish relationshipswithin the organization • She realized that it may be difficult toengage the departments in the initiative given the project she wasasked to lead • She was concerned about selecting team members whenshe did not yet know much about the others in the organization(their skills and knowledge and expertise) • She knew very littleabout the organization outside of what she learned in theonboarding program and her research when she was applying for theproject manager role Sydney needed to start the project fairlysoon. She didn’t have the luxury of taking time to buildrelationships and get to know people before the project had tobegin.

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