This is a guest post by Mike Griffiths. “Fun” and “PMP Exam” are rarely used in the same sentence. Too often, training materials are text-based, process-focused, and dry. However, fun is a serious business in adult learning; it boosts retention and cuts study time. We recall facts about our favorite hobbies and sports teams much…
Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! To get the benefits of better business resilience, you need to commit at the most senior levels within the…
Learn the process for winning stakeholder support with a simple model in this guest post by Jo Ann Sweeney.
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…
Instead of taking a wait and see approach, use these 4 methods to proactively manage stakeholders on your projects.
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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…
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…
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.
I create a lot of slide decks, for work, for training materials and just because I like making graphics in PowerPoint. I love a good template. It can make creating decks so much easier, and we all know how much senior execs like a good presentation. So will SlideKit’s Google Slides templates make it easier…
ITTOs, quizzes, flashcards and practice exams are all a part of this PMP and CAPM study tool. Find out what I thought of the project management online training course in my honest review.
Discover the benefits of risk audits and how they can help you manage projects more effectively. Learn when to use a risk audit, who does it, and what happens during one.