{"id":98,"date":"2009-12-05T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2009-12-05T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T17:43:12","slug":"the-blame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"The Blame Game&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lazysocialbuttons\" data-float=\"left\" data-buttons=\"google,twitter,facebook\" data-twshareurl=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=98\" data-twtext=\"\" data-shareurl=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=98\" data-fbhideflyout=\"false\" data-backgroundtype=\"light\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-99\" title=\"sugar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sugar-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"sugar\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sugar-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/home\/amberhibiz\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/sugar.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> It is common in Organizations to look for someone to blame when things go wrong. Some cultures are more prone to this behaviour than others but the temptaion to blame a member of the team when things go awry should be strongly resisted by the Project Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Any individual criticism should be done on a face to face basis in private. The public apportioning of blame will greatly weaken Team morale and spirit and will often reflect back on the Project Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Even if individual team members criticise the Project Manager this should be dealt with on a one to one basis avoiding public retaliation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Successful Project Managers generate respect by treating Team Members as they would be treated themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>chris@projectsguru.co.uk<\/p>\n\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar addthis_pub = '';\nvar addthis_language = 'en';var addthis_options = 'email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more';\n<\/script>\n<div class=\"addthis_container\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=20\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', 'https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amberhill.biz%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D98', 'The+Blame+Game%26%238230%3B%26%238230%3B')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/200\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Button END -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is common in Organizations to look for someone to blame when things go wrong. Some cultures are more prone to this behaviour than others but the temptaion to blame a member of the team when things go awry should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/?p=98\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberhill.biz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}