The problem with good practice is it slowly slips away as we respond to time pressures and expediency and bad habits take root. We know...
Are you practising stakeholder engagement by stealth?
Chances are your organisation already focuses on ‘stakeholder engagement’ but is using another name for the activity. From an...
Accommodating diversity in your project
Most projects bring together a diversity of stakeholders, but don't accommodate the diverse way in which they may want to interact with...
How to view project stakeholders and improve relationships
How well your brain works is impacted by how you relate to other people. In his book Buddha Brain, Rick Hanson writes about the first and...
Stakeholders: from confrontation to engagement
Project stakeholders can be helpful, obstructionist and almost anything in between, but for most stakeholders, how you deal with this is...
Stakeholders expect good governance
Stakeholders are becoming increasingly vocal in their demands for ‘good governance’. The rise of stakeholder activism (remembering...
4 project stakeholder biases to watch
Are your project stakeholders biased? The short answer to this question is ‘yes’ and to make matters worse, your opinion of your...
Sun Tzu and the art of stakeholder management
Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War nearly 2,500 years ago; his ideas have been widely translated and are regularly used as a guide for...
Using Voice of the Customer in projects
Most project managers think they know what their stakeholders want, but more often than not they are either partially correct or...
Did you mean to collaborate on this project?
We say it all the time. It falls off our tongues in meetings. “What we are going to do is collaborate on this project to get great...