How can you stay motivated during complex construction projects?

Set clear goals and expectations: Define specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals for yourself and your team. This will help you stay focused on the project's objectives and track your progress towards completion.

You can set all the goals and milestones in the wotld but it always boils down to really knowing the reliability of your supplier's supply chain recent history and your contractor's ability to execute based on their commitments to deliver.

I make it a point to celebrate every milestone and achievement, no matter how small, because recognizing progress fuels my motivation. When tasks allow, I delegate responsibilities to my team members, trusting them to handle the workload. This not only eases my burden but also empowers them, fostering a strong sense of ownership within the team. I prioritize my own self-care, ensuring I get proper sleep, nutrition, and exercise because I know that my physical and mental well-being directly influences my energy levels and overall motivation. Taking care of myself allows me to bring my best to the complex challenges of construction projects.

Of course we need realistic goals. However, the realistic goal size for each project will be different. On construction projects in oil and gas and mining environments where safety regulations are very strict, setting targets like in other places will create stress. Safety regulations and other rules force construction processes to run more slowly than in other places. Problematic projects that are not well prepared by the owner also make normal targets elsewhere become unrealistic to achieve. Because of that, in my opinion, what motivates me is how to successfully pursue the goals that have been planned even though there are many problems, a lot of pressure and interference and too many rules that slow me down.

During the project we have to be motivated, and here I am talking about the oil & gas sector and the oil industry and construction. The method of motivation must be managed by us, the managers and share the positive energy around our staff and manpower. Well, in a very complex project, you have to have patience In order to focus on the adaptation and technical management of anomalies.

Construction projects essentially manage the people behind the positions, tasks or responsibilities. It is not surprising that most of the problems on the project were caused by poor human communication and could otherwise have been solved well by good and effective communication. But humans are unique, unpredictable, full of paradoxes, and full of interests. At least in the construction projects I have worked on, good communication cannot necessarily solve problems. But effective communication can do it. Because in projects, especially when facing tricky and cheating employers, they deliberately carry out poor communication to exploit weak parties. It's very effective. This is a challenge for those of us who are in that exploited position.

Construction projects in Indonesia are very unique. From end to end of Indonesia's vast territory, projects are always different from one another. There are always new things to handle and learn. Is it related to technical construction issues in difficult locations, how to deal with the community around the project, how to deal with manpower who come from various ethnicities, and so on. This not only requires us to explore the technical and non-technical abilities that we have, but also to explore the sources of referrals and support that we can access. Does it come from experts at head office, consultants, colleagues in networking, from the internet, or from books. We have to be smarter in utilizing these available reference sources.

Participar en un proyecto complejo y de larga duración supone desarrollar tu trabajo y el de tu equipo en un escenario donde va a estar sometido a un alto estrés sobre todo si existe un objetivo de plazo irrenunciable. En estos proyectos suele haber muchos stakeholders que en muchas ocasiones serán motivo de fricciones. Es indispensable mantener la calma, dar sosiego al equipo de trabajo, fijar metas a corto plazo y generar un ambiente de trabajo distendido. Paso corto y mirada larga.

Make the day better by laughing and taking a breath during the day. Something’s on a job are out of your control. Remember there’s always tomorrow if you gave it your all and still come up short .

Share knowledge. Celebrate short term wins. Use open collaborative innovation to gather solutions to problems,tap into the knowledge of your team. Be empathetic and humble. Give clear instructions. Welcome feedback. Communicate frequently with your team.

motivation comes naturally with success oversimplification? perhaps... success begins during pre-construction, when the project deliverables are accurately defined ensuring clearly defined deliverables helps set the project up for success communicating these deliverables to each stakeholder, and ensuring accuracy of proposals further sets the project up for success obtaining buy-in from every stakeholder regarding production schedules and expectations continues the trend towards success since there is no such thing as a static construction project, it's imperative that the team is constantly working to identify potential constraints and solutions in order to maintain the required production flow minimize and/or eliminate rework!