Ruth Pearce's Blog: Be a Project Motivator, page 2

Stakeholder Management - A 4-step Process

A few weeks ago, a coaching client of mine asked me to explain stakeholder management. He wanted me to provide him with a definitive list of his stakeholders for his particular project. He described the project to me as follows:

“We are developing a new customer accounting system that will ...

The Role of the Project Manager from the Inside and Out

I am, by nature, a curious person. A few years ago, after 25 years of managing projects and programs, I was curious about whether I, as a project manager, expected the same thing of myself as others expected of me. Was I meeting expectations?

After some interesting conversations with stakeho...

5 ways to be a strong - and socially intelligent - project manager

As a child there was a phrase that my father loved to use. Any time we reported back that we had tried something hopeful that the outcome would be other than expected, he would shake his head and say, “Well that is the triumph of hope over experience.” When he said that I always fel...