Winning stakeholder support when time and energy are limited
Learn the process for winning stakeholder support with a simple model in this guest post by Jo Ann Sweeney.
Stakeholders
Learn how to engage people on projects and manage stakeholder relationships at work. Get things done, even when your colleagues have different priorities!
Why do stakeholders contribute?
Why do stakeholders take part in projects? You might think that’s an obvious question. After all, your project sponsor is probably the one who wanted this project to happen in the first place, and he or she has a vested interest in making it a success. But aside from the sponsor, all those other stakeholders…
4 ways to proactively manage stakeholders
Instead of taking a wait and see approach, use these 4 methods to proactively manage stakeholders on your projects.
4 Unusual Reasons Why Stakeholder Management Is Important
Why is stakeholder management important to project success? Because we need people to get the project work done. However, stakeholder management is a very narrow way of looking at how we work with people on projects to achieve a common goal. A better question would be, “Why is stakeholder engagement important?” Let’s park that for…
Why Don’t 50% of People Do Stakeholder Engagement?
I ran a survey about stakeholder management (thanks, by the way, if you were one of the people who filled it out) and the results surprised me. I have done a bit of analysis on the results and I wanted to share what I know so far with you. The biggest reason we do stakeholder…
Stakeholder Engagement Essentials You Always Wanted To Know (Book Review)
If you are new to project management, new to leading project teams – even if you have a lot of other, related business experience in a different field – then this book will be relevant to you.
Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]
In this video Elizabeth Harrin discusses how merging engagement and gamification creates engagification, a methodology to help people take action on projects. Watch the video to listen (about 30 minutes). If you prefer to read, there are closed captions in the video or there’s also a transcript underneath the video. Transcript Hello, everybody. My name…
10 Tips for being more customer-centric on your projects
Do you wish that your project stakeholders were a bit more involved, or that you knew what they were thinking? You can find out – you just have to ask them. One technique I use is to ask project stakeholders (whom I call customers, as they are the customers of the project management process) how…
5 Tips for Managing Project Communications in a Crisis
There are always things that go wrong on projects – sometimes those issues are small; sometimes they are significant. Here are 5 tips to help you deal with project communications during an issue.
The Definitive Guide to Project Sponsors
Learn how you can work with project sponsors effectively as a project manager in this definitive guide.
Fostering Knowledge Sharing in Project Management Communities [Video]
Do you run a knowledge community for project managers? These tips will help you boost engagement and increase knowledge sharing in your community.
What is Stakeholder-led Project Management?
I recently sat down with the book Stakeholder-led Project Management by Louise M. Worsley and wanted to share my thoughts and take-aways from her book.