Project HEADWAY: How To Train Your Sponsor
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You've been to project management school. You've learnt the process, you've got the tools, you've found some templates - and even better, you know why they are important to managing projects effectively. The challenge is that your project sponsor (or, perhaps, your entire steering committee) isn't up to speed on any of this. The results is that expectations change, demands get made, issues go unresponded to and changes get requested on a regular basis. Your attempt to manage effectively gets thwarted because the person you report to doesn't really understand -- and sometimes doesn't seem to want to understand -- the process of project management, and the expectations it creates.
Part of being an effective project manager means that we need to create an environment in which we can be successful. In part, that means we need to ensure that we are getting the support, leadership and governance we need. We don't always start with that, which means we need to look for it, and some times we actually need to help create it. Training our sponsors to be effective is a very specific kind of 'managing upwards' that involves helping our sponsors to understand the process, the expectations that they should be having of us and the expectations that we have of them. Most importantly, it involves ensuring they understand why all of this is important. Join Mark Mullaly as he provides guidance on how to train your sponsor to provide the support you need to be successful.
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