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Why you need to engage stakeholders (and how to do it well)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. Where stakeholders feel negatively about projects and changes, engagement helps understand their position and influence their perception. Beyond the interest and influence grid.

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Henry Gantt’s Biography & Role in Gantt Chart History

ProjectManager.com

During this time he was writing articles, such as “A Bonus System of Rewarding Labor” and “A Graphical Daily Balance in Manufacture” for various trade magazines. Later he published Work, Wages and Profits: Their Influence on the Cost of Living (1910), Industrial Leadership (1916) and Organizing for Work (1919).

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30 Team Building Activities

ProjectManager.com

Objective: See other’s perspective in other to help influence their position. Activity: Have some magazines and allow everyone to pick a picture from one. Activity: Dividing group into smaller teams, each of which gets an envelope of cards quartered into triangles. They have three minutes to strategize before trading for eight minutes.

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Some Seasonal Readings from Lynne Cazaly

Lynne Cazaly

Look beyond leadership perspectives. Being stuck in old ways of working comes about because of old systems, structures, mindsets and fears — masquerading as leadership, compliance and control. I see this so frequently when I speak to senior leadership teams about new ways of working. Consult further. No one view is right.

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Review AGILE NXT – New Insights for Agile Performance Management

Henny Portman

The Gentle Way of Change (by Chris Lukassen) talks about six levers or sources of influence from the path to Judo black belt that could make you a better leader in business: personal motivation, personal ability, social motivation, social ability, structural motivation, and structural ability. Curious to read the magazine?

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Servant Leadership – It Works

Project-Management.pm

Why Servant Leadership Works. Magazine, is a big fan of servant leadership, based upon what his decades of research on what he calls “high-performing” companies – Southwest Airlines, Whole Foods, Best Buy, UPS, and more. Successful leadership is built around the behaviors that leaders model for their subordinates.

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Top Tips for Managing Design Projects

Wrike

Product design influences packaging, brand identity, and customer experience. These are multi-page documents, such as books and magazines, combining text and visual media to tell a story or convey information. Sometimes, the initiation phase means presenting the project’s business case and getting senior leadership buy-in.