See a project manager along with a team of 15 to 20 people: a mixture of designers, analyst’s programmers and support staff. Also the project uses some specialist staff onto a part-time basis. How could the project manager affect the working environment of that a team so as to acquire the best out of them? What are the behaviours that they could show which would have an effect on the working style of the project team?

It is a disparate project team made more complicated to manage by the use of part-time specialists. The size of the team implies that there will possibly be three or four teams in the project every managed by a team leader. That effectively creates a ‘management team’ for project. A project manager will concentrate onto ensuring that the teams are managed in a consistent and collaborative manner.

The overall team is small adequate for the project manager to know everyone and to be motivating and supportive or, when required, firm and critical regarding work performance.

The climate is founded by the project manager’s own leadership and by modelling the way wherein people are expected to behave. A helpful model is the Leadership Challenge model.