10 Secrets To Being a Good Sponsor
What makes a good sponsor? Read these 10 tips for being a good project sponsor and what they mean on projects today.
Project Sponsor
Top challenges for project sponsors
Are you wondering how to build a better relationship with your project sponsor? I spoke to the authors of Strategies for Project Sponsorship, a book about how to sponsor projects, and reading it from a project manager’s perspective is a great way to improve how you interact and engage with your project sponsor. Peter Taylor…
5 Ways To Lead Your Manager (without it being icky)
In this guest article by Nick Nuss, he gives 5 tips on how to lead your manager and navigate your way to success.
How to get the best from your sponsor
Peter Taylor, Ron Rosenhead and Vicki James have just written a book called Strategies for Project Sponsorship, about (surprise, surprise) project sponsors. Last time I interviewed Peter about how to manage when your sponsor is rubbish. Today I’m going to share my conversation with Vicki. We spoke about how to get the best from your…
Managing Up: How to Manage Your Boss
One of the questions I’m often asked is: “How do I get taken seriously at work?” And over my career I have asked myself that question as well. One way to build credibility in the workplace was explained by Dr Lynda Bourne at a presentation she gave at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin…
Project Management in the Hundred Acre Wood
We’ve been doing 360 degree assessments at work and when I was asked to describe a colleague as a shape, color, animal or fictional character, and to explain my reasoning, I drew a blank. Matching shapes to people is not my strong point. Some of you may know that my Master’s degree is in Children’s…
4 Reasons Why Your Project Board Isn’t Working
Project Boards should help you by taking decisions and providing direction for the project. Find out how to recognise when your project board isn’t working for you and what to do. Learn how to take control when you aren’t getting that level of support and how to get your Project Board back on track.
Book review: Strategies for Project Sponsorship
Did you fall into project management? Or get promoted to a project management role? Then you are probably a ‘accidental project manager’ – someone who never set out to study project management at university but who ended up doing a PM job by accident rather than design. Now, apply that same thinking to your project…
Is your project team a sales force in disguise?
This is a guest post by Jon Swain, President of Ten Six Consulting. Strong project sponsorship is critical to ensuring that your project is a success. One of the roles of a sponsor is to champion the project and the project team. This includes making sure the project gets the recognition and resources it requires….
Myths about project sponsorship
Elyse Nielson from Ascension Health and the blog Anticlue gave a presentation at the PMI Global Congress North America in Dallas in 2011 about sponsors and their interaction with the project. She talked about the importance of getting the right sponsor for the project and shared some myths about project sponsorship. Elyse pointed out that…
Training Sponsors
“Practising batting my eyelids was essential preparation for a steering group meeting…”