Succeeding with senior management getting the right support at the right time for your project
Senior managers speak the language of strategy. Project managers use the language of tasks and activities. While they rely on each other to achieve their goals, this core incompatibility can lead to communication breakdowns and project setbacks. Succeeding with Senior Management explains how to brid...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
AMACOM, American Management Association
[2017]
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Gale eBooks
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630319906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Understanding the facts of life for executives
- Preparing the leadership
- Questions every project manager really needs answered
- Establishing the relationship and managing up the organization
- Working with the executive sponsor to understand the project
- Reviewing the stakeholder analysis with your sponsor
- Listening styles and how using them effectively helps you to engage an executive
- Your attitude and its role in engaging an executive
- Preparing sponsors for their role
- Clearly establishing the communication channels to stakeholders
- Creating internal and external communications with the sponsor
- Using deputies of executives effectively
- Executing risk mitigation strategies and executive sponsor support
- Addressing scope with the sponsor
- Providing options and recommendations for key decisions
- Communicating problems and issues with the sponsor
- Communicating with operations using the sponsor
- Using the sponsor to gain operations support
- Getting help with cross-functional issues
- Navigating the political waters
- Engaging senior managers when you have a multinational, cross-cultural project
- Handling competition with other initiatives.
