Danielle Annells

Danielle Annells is a senior consultant at Twyfords specialising in supporting organisations to collaborate with their internal and external stakeholders around complex issues. Twyfords’ Collaborative Governance model underpins her work and provides a pathway for the co-creation of innovative and enduring solutions. She works across a wide range of industries and issues providing strategic advice, process design, facilitation and the delivery of capacity and skill building programs.

Understanding project team dynamics

A collection of people are asked to contribute work on the project based on their job role, their stake in the project outcome or a mandate. Or they may volunteer to be part of it based on passion or necessity. A team comes together. Or does it? Danielle Annells on how to evaluate project team dynamics.

February 13, 2014

Teamwork

Did you mean to collaborate on this project?

We say: “What we are going to do is collaborate on this project to get great outcomes,” but do we really know what we are saying when we say it? Do we know what we are committing to? asks Danielle Annells.

September 18, 2013

Stakeholders

The importance of co-defining project dilemmas

How do you ensure that you get new and essential project information from your stakeholders when it is too late to do anything about it? asks Danielle Annells. It’s a case of redefining the question.

August 22, 2013

Project stakeholders: assets or risks to be managed?

We often use the phrase ‘stakeholder management’. The implicit message in this phrase is that stakeholders need to be managed. Danielle Annells on why ‘stakeholder management’ gets in the way of true collaboration.

August 8, 2013

Stakeholders