Project HEADWAY: Setting Up Your Sponsor Relationship for Success

 

Building an effective relationship with your project sponsor is absolutely essential to enduring success as a project manager. The challenge is that many people with the title of project sponsor don’t really know what is required or expected of them in the role.

Successfully building a relationship with your sponsor consists of equal parts negotiation, coaching and education. As a project manager, it very often will fall to you to help your project sponsor to succeed and thrive in the role.

In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores what it takes to develop, build and sustain a successful relationship with your project sponsor. You will learn how to negotiate expectations up front to position yourself for success. You’ll gain strategies for appropriately guiding, educating and coaching your sponsor in the role in a way that they will accept and value. You will also learn how to course correct and provide constructive feedback in a way that is most likely to ensure that it is heard positively and meaningfully taken on board.

For anyone that wants to improve the relationship with their current project sponsor—or thrive in engaging with their next one—this is a presentation that you won’t want to miss.

In this presentation, Mark Mullaly explores what it takes to develop, build and sustain a successful relationship with your project sponsor. You will learn how to negotiate expectations up front to position yourself for success. You’ll gain strategies for appropriately guiding, educating and coaching your sponsor in the role in a way that they will accept and value. You will also learn how to course correct and provide constructive feedback in a way that is most likely to ensure that it is heard positively and meaningfully taken on board. For anyone that wants to improve the relationship with their current project sponsor—or thrive in engaging with their next one—this is a presentation that you won’t want to miss.