— You will hear another five recordings. — You will hear five speakers talking about running project teams. — For each recording

Well, obviously every team’s going to be different, but some things should be standard practice. For the thing to hold together, everyone’s got to be pulling their weight, whatever their role is, so you need to keep a keen eye on how they’re all doing. Keep tabs on whether they’ve done what they should have, and whether they’re getting things done on time. You need to be equal and fair with everyone.

A team can look like a single unit from the outside, but be chaos within, with nobody really understanding what’s going on. Or, as often happens, they have conflicting ideas of what they’re trying to achieve. It can help to avoid such problems if you build in an education phase at the start - make sure everyone is fully inducted by teaching them the skills they’ll need for the project. It’ll make life easier - or bearable, at least.