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How To Manage Your First Meeting With A Project Sponsor

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the best training courses I attended for Project Management was on influencing strategies with Learning Tree. The course model stated that without trust, influence is almost impossible. As the project manager I need to quickly understand what strategy I follow in interacting with the sponsor.

2016 371
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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It will teach you how to influence others, even when you are not directly managing them. Any books about achieving business goals, portfolio management, strategy execution or case-study driven books will count here. It’s about influence and negotiation and how to get things done. PDU claim: 2 hours. PDU claim: 9 hours.

PMI 354
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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. Problem-focused strategies. Emotion-focused coping strategies. The structural environment.

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How to Engage Project Stakeholders With Good Communication

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It should be aligned to the business goals, departmental goals or the overarching corporate strategy (or, even better, all of those). Identify who are the key influencers on your project so you can include them in your team of supporters and champions. Your project’s vision should be simple – something that can be clearly stated.

2016 379
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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

What strategies make them more?—?or 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”. Much of this revolves around the product vision, strategy, and purpose of the work.

2014 225
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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence: Bring It On!

The IIL Blog

They should be focused on strategy. It could generate insights into the stakeholders’ interests, power, influence, and engagement. AI tools could generate a stakeholder-specific analysis of concerns, engagement, and influence. Risk could be scored, prioritized, and response strategies documented. Imagine this future.

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

Butchibabu and her colleagues (2016) performed an experiment with 13 teams. Many studies have found that psychological safety has a positive influence on team effectiveness (Edmondson, 2014). These are fine strategies. Implicit coordination strategies for effective team communication. How to coordinate the flow of work.

2004 243