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The key to effective global communication networks
There is surely no factor that’s more problematic in a commmunications campaign than the challenge of making it work globally. Many large organizations now work across borders and cultures and face the...
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‘Advising Upwards’ and Stakeholder Management:
Much has been written about leadership and team building, but there are still major gaps in thinking and research about how to engage senior stakeholders in support of an organisation’s projects. The...
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Projects Without Boundaries
Projects without Boundaries is the second of a series of virtual conferences hosted by The Virtual Business School, on 12th October, in the ‘The Qube’. I will be taking part and if you are interested...
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The Rise of Stakeholders
In her blog post The Rise of Stakeholders, Gower Author Lynda Bourne writes about the Google Ngram Viewer and shows how ‘the rise of “Stakeholders” from a pure legal/gambling term (the neutral party...
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Getting Things Done Through Others: A Training Dilemma
How many project managers fall into the trap of focusing all their efforts on the doing of project work compared to the need to influence others to get things done? The challenge for trainers and...
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Gower Authors on Executive Stakeholders, Complexity and Project Success
This month Dr Lynda Bourne author of Advising Upwards: A Framework for Understanding and Engaging Senior Management Stakeholders talks to Elizabeth Harrin about helping project managers communicate...
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Finding the ‘Flaw’ in Projects by Lynda Bourne
This month in Voices in Project Management on the PMI’s website, Gower author Lynda Bourne discusses effective stakeholder management. In Finding the ‘Flaw’ in Projects , Bourne looks at Sam L....
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Unnecessary detail, pseudo accuracy, jargon and ambiguity – it is any wonder...
Lynda Bourne’s article Communicating Upwards for Effect on PM World Journal is a salutary reminder of some of the simplest communication techniques and their potential impact on sponsors and other...
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What you need to understand about a project before you dive in!
Stakeholder communication may be a very urgent requirement for every project but Ann Pilkington’s article in Simply Communicate shows why it’s well worth taking a moment to reflect on the resources you...
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Four Steps to Project Mutiny
Disagreement, sometimes even conflict, is a natural part of healthy project working and something that a project manager needs to be comfortable with. However, as this extract from A Practical Guide to...
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