Is your team aligned with your strategic vision? Are you tailoring messages to stakeholders? With a New Year upon us, we offer a small selection of mottoes as a kind of fortune cookie wisdom guide to project management...
Honesty is the best policy. Be unbiased, and consider the good of the project first. Time is money. As people and especially as project managers, these truisms buzz by our ears every day. When we apply all three considerations to managing stakeholder expectations, however, we have a powerful formula for success.
Are you operating in a blame environment? Your project may be at risk. In this article, we examine the concept of shared responsibility and identify some steps you can take to start moving your stakeholders in a positive direction.
Speaking Stakeholder seems easy at first since it's rooted in English. However, the challenge is the language can differ from project to project. Here are a few examples and key lessons learned in stakeholder communication.
Project managers have a stakeholder management problem. Or, to be more precise, they have a problem with a lot of stakeholders who endlessly resist being managed. So why the gap? Where did it come from? How did it all get this ugly? And what's to be done about it?
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." - Mark Twain |
