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The Importance of Effective Communication as Part of Stakeholder Management

Anyone who has been involved in projects, whether managing them, part of the team or part of the PMO (Project Management Office) knows that effective communication is crucial for a successful project. And since stakeholder management is part of any project it stands to reason that communication with stakeholders also has to be clear and

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Managing Stakeholder Attitudes

Leadership

This post will look at the various dimensions of a stakeholders ‘attitude’ towards you and your project and how these will influence the project’s chance of success. Attitude is derived from perceptions, in this context the stakeholder’s perception of the project and how its outcomes will affect the stakeholder’s interests. Fortunately, perceptions are negotiable and

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The What, Why And How Of Stakeholder Management

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All size of projects, even the smallest, littlest projects have stakeholders. Most management styles, systems, approaches and methodologies have to involve a stakeholder analysis process for this reason. Stakeholder management is so important in fact, that there are key principles involved in the process of managing stakeholders so that project managers have guidelines to follow

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Prioritising IT projects has never mattered more

Insights, Leadership

IT Project prioritisation is crucial for your organisation. Selecting the wrong projects, which don’t deliver strategic value or the required ROI can impact the bottom line and mean that your business reduces its chance of hitting targets and achieving goals. You should take a day or two (or longer if your portfolio and budgets demand

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7 Silver bullets to stop office politics killing your IT projects

Insights, Leadership

Office politics! Working in IT Project Management, given the profession’s prominent role in the facilitation of business strategy and driving business change, you’d think we’d be above it! Project managers and leaders are among the most intelligent individuals you could hope to work with and yet many IT Projects are still scuppered by workplace politics.

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7 Reasons why IT Project Managers were born to blog

Careers, Insights, Leadership, PMO, Programme Management

“You’re so passionate about Project Management, you should write a blog about it,” one of my colleagues said a couple of years back. That’s how it started. I wrote one blog and then, having found it quite enjoyable, I wrote a second and then a third. I got some nice feedback, got shared, had a

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How to influence others

Leadership

A while ago I posted on influencing without authority, that post looked at building credibility and ‘currency’ to trade for the support and help you need. Those ideas buy you a seat at the table but how much influence you exert in any given situation largely depends on how effective you are at being influential.

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HOW DO YOU REPLACE INGREDIENTS WITHOUT RUINING THE CAKE?

Great talent is not easily replaceable

Careers, Insights, Leadership

When your firm loses a great team member, they take with them a business value that cannot be easily replaced. First, there’s the rich knowledge that they have of your organisation, its products, culture, systems and processes. They may have fostered relationships with your clients and internally with colleagues over many years and they have

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Never blow an IT project budget again

Insights, PMO, Programme Management

Most of my friends, colleagues and clients are forecasting that IT budgets will increase during 2017 but according to a recent survey, many CIOs say that managing and implementing those budgets is getting tougher. Which, I suppose, stands to reason. With greater budgets comes greater responsibility and every organisation wants the best possible return on

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Why you should ask your talent ‘Where would you want to work after here?’

Careers, Insights, Programme Management

“If you get the gig, where would you want to work after here?” As a recruitment specialist, my ears pricked up. I heard this conversation in a coffee bar this week. Actually, I was already pretty fascinated because the conversation was a job interview between a radio presenter and a radio station boss and it’s

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