We all have used the process stakeholder management/stakeholder analysis/stakeholder engagement. My experience dictates the need for stakeholder "relationship" which goes beyond engaging, analyzing. Before you can successfully "manage" your stakeholders, you really need to establish relationship with them. Would love to have you share your thoughts on this topic Saving Changes...
I believe the better my relationship with my stakeholders, the easier it is to work with them. I prefer to schedule time before or shortly after project kickoff to meet with stakeholders individually and ask them about their needs. They appreciate this personalized gesture, and I can often get a fuller sense of their requirements than I’d otherwise gain in meetings.
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Arif KhalilDirector| Halkaphulka Islamabad, Pakistan
This seems okay to address stakeholder engagement using the term relationship.
In fact, all the stakeholder tales are PM's team phenomenon, you address the perceptions of your team of the important stakeholders and importance to address them through team-work. One actually explores the strengths already available in the team members or which can be grown in-house, using them emphatically while boosting your team.
A wonderful team always does wonders!
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1 reply by Nila Vaishnav
Nov 30, 2017 12:07 PM
Nila Vaishnav
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Agree totally! Thank you
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Joe RoyleProgram Manager| URM GroupWakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
If you have 'engaged' stakeholders you have a successful Project, if they are not then you will fail...
In my point of view ultimate purpose and objective of stakeholder management is to establish relationship, confidence and trust. Once developed then managing and controlling would be easy and best outcome can be achieved
This seems okay to address stakeholder engagement using the term relationship.
In fact, all the stakeholder tales are PM's team phenomenon, you address the perceptions of your team of the important stakeholders and importance to address them through team-work. One actually explores the strengths already available in the team members or which can be grown in-house, using them emphatically while boosting your team.
If you have 'engaged' stakeholders you have a successful Project, if they are not then you will fail...
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George JucanManaging Partner| Organizational Perfomance Enablers NetworkWoodbridge, Ontario, Canada
Nila, I think the problem is actually bigger that the PM's relationship with the stakeholders - it's about all the relationships between all the stakeholders in a project! As a project manager one needs to know and exploit the network of working and personal relationships between stakeholders (including oneself) to benefit the project (and not oneself).
When needing an approval or so from an executive, we all know that most often the direct line is not the faster or efficient one. Convincing the right person before reaching out to that executive may result in a favorable outcome before even formally presenting the case.
My pet peeve with all the "traditional" or "generally used" tools to assist stakeholders identification and analysis is that all of them are static and treat each stakeholder in isolation. As such I developed my stakeholders mapping technique - briefly described in https://www.projectmanagement.com/books/42...ders-Engagement in the Reference Library - to address the relationship between stakeholders and be able to map the most efficient path to reach a specific stakeholder in the network.
Back to your question about the project manager's relationships, the more you have (and the stronger they are) provides you with more entry points into the network of stakeholder relationships that exists out there - regardless if you know them or not. And the more entries you have in the network the more path options you have to reach a specific target.
It's harder to manage the inter-stakeholder relationships, there is little control. At least with our own PM interaction we have a degree of control since we make up 50% of each stakeholder relationship with us. Saving Changes...
Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
I think George is making the point of using existing inter-stakeholder relationships, Sante, not of building net new ones. Saving Changes...
