Project Management is a Cinderella occupation. Nick Garratt knows this only too well. He has to use not only his planning and organizational skills to keep the team of engineers and technicians on timetable, he also has to be the bearer of bad news and the motivator, all in one package. To top it all, the stars of the project are always the designers and the demonstrators. They inevitably receive most of the limelight and are usually first in line for plaudits.
When is it more important to recognize the efforts of an entire team more than any of the individuals in that team? Team working is not an exact science. There have been theories postulated for many years about team-working and it is important to consider, when dealing with recognition of team performance, that even within a team of, for example, engineers you may not only be looking to reward their ability to produce good engineering solutions.
Dr Meredith Belbin has defined team roles that, for example, different engineers play within the team. He says that we have two jobs in a project.
The technical role that you are trained to carry out
The team role that allows you to contribute to the...