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While many project communication plans are simply a schedule for the distribution of project reports, sending out information has very little to do with effective communication. Lynda Bourne outlines the difference between project reports and effective communication.
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Setting up projects to succeed in the view of the customer/stakeholder is a critical part of the project manager’s role. PM Oracles looks at how having a project success plan can assist in upfront communication.
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Understanding the changing face of the workplace and the role played by white collar contractors, especially those who perform project management functions, is critical for employers.
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Attaining stakeholder buy-in is one of the most important steps in the communication process when managing a project. It ensures that the project team has the passion to do the project, that the executive team will support your efforts, and that external stakeholders will understand and accept the project. Nicholas Barnett shares some lessons from his book ‘GPS Your Organisation’.
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Effective communication between project stakeholders is always difficult but critical to ensure you can manage stakeholders’ expectations. Lynda Bourne explains how project estimation can play a part in conveying meaning.
“Pseudo accurate estimates based on detailed calculations are no more valid than estimates made in more general terms, but can easily create false expectations.”
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Matthew Franceschini on using an independent professional to add skills and energy to your project.
“They approach each engagement with confidence, enthusiasm and vigour. These are all qualities that can re-energise a project.”
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Roberts’ new book, The Well-Balanced Leader, is written from the perspective of nine attributes that real leaders need to be successful in the workplace.
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Karen Williams questions why we find it so difficult to deliver effective feedback and proposes a guide for project managers working with a cross-generational project team.
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When NASA projects failed, they failed in the most public and tragic way possible. But one man turned NASA’s fatal flaw into a career diagnosing dysfunctional project teams and turning them into low risk, high performing ones.
...read moreHow do we know if we have communicated? Lynda Bourne believes communications within project teams and with stakeholders is harder than it seems.
“While any language is superficially made up of words and words have meaning, context is critical.”
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