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How To Manage Your First Meeting With A Project Sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Meeting a project sponsor for the first time is an opportunity to impress. But what do you actually talk about when you meet a project sponsor for the first time? One of the best training courses I attended for Project Management was on influencing strategies with Learning Tree. I follow up with a 1-to-1 if I can.

2016 365
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How to Engage Project Stakeholders With Good Communication

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Think about why you are doing your project and how it meets the business’s requirements. The team are ambassadors for your project and they need to be consistently selling the story of your project and promoting the benefits with the people they work with and meet. ” “I’m meeting with X on Thursday.

2016 374
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How to Deal with Challenging Situations Involving Stakeholders

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We found that the project environment plays a crucial role in creating challenging situations involving stakeholders for project managers and that project managers can often take active measures to influence and improve this. She worked for nearly 10 years in the industry before joining academia in 2016. The structural environment.

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2019 Project Management Conferences You Won’t Want to Miss

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management conferences are a fantastic way to meet new people and improve your skills. If you are looking to attend a project management conference in 2019, chances are there is something happening near you that will be fun and meet your professional goals. This year’s theme is “Power of the Profession.”

2019 371
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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

Notes from Listen.bot Taking meeting minutes, publishing them, and updating the issues, risks, and action item logs is pure drudgery. I enjoy facilitating a meeting but hate the follow-up work. My rule of thumb is that an hour meeting generates at least 1.5 I am afraid that AI-generated meeting minutes will reduce engagement.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

Recognize how much of your thinking is still subtly influenced by a mechanical perspective in organizations . like network patterning, mood, safety, social contact and social influence?—?than social influence is that much stronger. than on individual traits. Where do you draw boundaries when an organization is more like this?

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

It is no surprise that the researchers conclude that “Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence”. Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence.”.

2014 207