Twenty years after their first encounter, a project management trainer (aka “the vendor”) and a consumer of that content (aka “the client”) take time to reflect on vendor/client alliances and their own relationship. (Spoiler alert: It’s all about the people!)
Managing stakeholders is a science and art. This is especially true in the healthcare, where constant decisions literally present life-and-death situations. Read more about the uniqueness of stakeholders in this industry.
With the return of in-person events, it might be time for PMI chapter leaders to reassess how they’re engaging members. Here are some strategies across the community that chapters have used successfully.
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Join us for PMI Business Analysis Virtual Conference 2019! This virtual event will explore the latest trends in business analysis and provide you with the insights, resources, and tools to advance your career and enhance project success.
During this webinar, a method will be presented for rapidly determining the political viability of a project. This method indicates where changes may be needed to increase the probability of project success.
In project management, negotiation is a crucial skill that enables project managers to achieve optimal outcomes within the constraints of time and cost. This webinar focuses on successful negotiation perspectives for project managers, specifically in dealing with stakeholder dynamics, scope management, time / cost / resource constraints.
This webinar delves into the deepest of the brains of individuals to unravel ways that would enhance their skills to manage stakeholders in their journey of project management. As the questions usually individuals tend to ask their stakeholders lack the ability to question most of the times that eventually becomes the greatest pitfall
This Stakeholder Engagement Register helps to identify project stakeholders, along with their roles and influence; along with the communication mediums, tools and technology that will be needed to keep them engaged on a project.
Every project stakeholder has different priorities, needs, biases and concerns—and project managers must understand these unique perspectives. This template is intended to allow a project manager to create and maintain a profile for each stakeholder that gives a snapshot of what they need—and how best to interact with them.
How should you communicate with a stakeholder who is an intuitive extrovert? Or a receptive introvert? Use this Excel worksheet to find out! Just enter the four criteria covering geography and personality to get a suggested form of communication. Adapt the fields and criteria to fit your needs.
The Project Canvas framework, which covers the basic principles and fundamentals of projects that everyone should know, is practical and easy to implement. It is a proven tool that will assist you in leading projects more successfully and in making your dreams a reality.
Protecting your customers' personal data should be job one. If you don't have a privacy policy in place, you need to do that five minutes ago. This checklist will help ensure that your privacy policy will be successfully put together, rolled out to the troops and followed.
Artificial intelligence will become a significantly important tool for project managers to use, especially for problem-solving and decision-making. How easy or difficult will it be to get stakeholders to support AI practices?
A temporary mill shutdown project in the pulp and paper industry proved to be a challenge for this practitioner. Read how he utilized communication tools to help optimize efficiencies.
For external projects, there isn't a lot of direct connection with customers—and that is a lost opportunity. There is tremendous value in trying to make these customers "real." How can we achieve that level of understanding?
It can be tough to keep customers’ attention—and ultimately keep them happy. True and meaningful relationships are built on shared experiences and interactions. You need to put in the work—and these pointers can help.
Question: I just got my next project, and my boss wants me to meet regularly with the people from the marketing department. To be honest, I don’t understand why. That’s something that happens after my team and I finish our job and release the project to the other parts of the company, who work with it later. My time is precious. Should I waste it in extra meetings with other parts of the organization?
When project teams are buried in the details of their work, it’s easy for them to forget that they are producing solutions for real people. PMs need to help them remember.
Question: I know that as project managers we are supposed to try to provide what the customer or company asks us to do, but what about when they request silly things? I would think we had some responsibility to protect them from spending time and money creating things that have no actual value. At what point do we step in and slightly adjust the technical and functional requirements to be more realistic, and help them see that they are spending money on features and functions that aren’t really necessary?
From a project’s kickoff to final delivery, storytelling is a critical, if underused, tool for project managers. Can ChatGPT help? By generating ideas and connections based on your input, this natural language processing tool can prompt your own thinking and lead to more compelling stories.
As project managers, we have to pull information that is both broad and deep out of our constituents. We can’t expect them to “push” information to us proactively and package it the way we want. Here are seven ways to minimize your burden of information “pull” when working with stakeholders.
How can you optimize communication with stakeholders during a project? From building consensus to effective messaging to diffusing conflict, here are six skills every leader must exhibit.
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