Posts Tagged ‘Stakeholder Management’
HOW PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS IMPACT YOUR CAREER
There is a quiet ceiling that stops many talented professionals from advancing – and it is not intelligence, work ethic, or technical ability. It is project management. Over three decades of executing complex EPC/EPIC projects for major operators, I have watched brilliant engineers and other professionals plateau at the same career stage – not because…
Read MoreWhen a “Simple” Project Becomes a Career-Defining Failure
In project management, complexity is often misunderstood. Many teams assume that only large, technically advanced, or multi-billion-dollar initiatives demand rigorous planning. Smaller projects are frequently treated as straightforward exercises that can be managed with intuition, experience, and a few informal conversations. That assumption is dangerous. I learned this lesson in a powerful way on one…
Read MoreBeyond the Schedule: How Fearless Stakeholder Management Transforms Your PM Career
Ask a group of new project managers what their job is, and you’ll hear things like: organize tasks, run meetings, track progress, manage the schedule. All of that is true. But if that’s all you do, and stakeholder management is not part of it, you will quickly hit a ceiling. The difference between a project…
Read MoreSTAKEHOLDER BEHAVIOR LESSONS FROM THE UNITED NATIONS
Discerning observers of events in both the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council would realise that they can learn a lot about stakeholder behaviours and how to manage them. For instance, many have watched with dismay how it has been very difficult for the two bodies to achieve unanimity of opinions on very…
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