How Project Managers Can Better Navigate Setbacks

Setbacks are common on projects — but project managers hold four key tools to understand why they happen and how to help their teams move past them. First, understand the neuroscience behind setbacks to encourage people to learn and grow.

Nearly everyone in the workforce has experienced a setback at some point. Many are familiar with concepts like learning from mistakes, post-traumatic growth, and failing up. But a setback is not always a mistake, trauma, or failure. A setback is defined as a reversal or “a checking of progress.” It’s when the path forward disappears — an unexpected bump backwards, a return to a starting line, a forced need to reroute.


 
Published October 30, 2023
Originally Published on Harvard Business Review

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