2. Setting up your project team.
You've got Joe, Mary, Indira, Chen and Vladamir at your first official team meeting. Great! You launch into how you run a tight ship. That people are expected at all meetings, arriving 5 minutes early, no pagers, berries and interruptions. You follow that amazing intro with your expectations from the team with respect to how many hours min. per day are required on actual project related activities, all the documents that are mandatory reading, all the meetings that are mandatory. The launch date that can't be missed otherwise there will be hell to pay. Wow, you've really won them over. You've single handedly redefined the meaning of rapport. Boy, am I cynical today. Ok, so there's a right way and a wrong way. I won't go into all the points here. But I will stress, one thing and that is team building.