Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. Read next: my book Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to harness people power. Beyond the interest and influence grid. Helping people take part in the project. So why do we bother?

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The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2020

It is a collaborative community with six of the brightest minds in Project Management leading discussions and sharing ideas to help you solve your challenges, increase your influence and accelerate your career! Her latest book What’s Your Catalyst? Morris, PMP – Rick has written 4 bestselling books (Project Management That Works!,

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 5, 2019

They are often active, and they can have a positive or negative influence depending on their actions. Stakeholders can influence everything and everyone in a project or organization, including senior management, project leaders, team members, customers, users and many others. Also, who will wield the most influence?

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These top 25 influencers for 2025 aren’t just keeping up with the trends—they’re setting them, reshaping how teams collaborate, innovate, and deliver in today’s fast-paced world. What distinguishes these influencers in the landscape of project management thought leadership?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 3, 2020

Sarah Coleman is co-author of Project Leadership, a book in its third edition exploring how leadership and project management intertwine. How is that reflected in your book? We offer a view on how an ideal project leadership development program might look for an organization in the book. Great list! Thanks, Sarah!

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What is an Influencer? These gentlemen are in all the top-10 lists of being the ‘the best’ Politician, Influencer, world changer, etc. So before diving into the Product Owner taking an Influencer stance, let’s first inspect what an Influencer is. The Influencer is also referred to as the Politician.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2022

That’s the question I answer in my book, Managing Multiple Projects. Many people managing projects are not the top leaders in their organizations and can’t influence strategy, what tools are in use, or how many projects the business promises to clients. And do not worry, I have a simple 5-step framework that will guide you through.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 6, 2023

Business Resilience: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace is a book by an impressive authoring team. The tone is set immediately with the powerful introduction: this is not a book for the faint-hearted! There are 5 domains in the business resilience framework laid out in the book. Who is this book for?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 20, 2021

I’ve been booking meetings for the next couple of months because I know my team get very busy, and if we don’t schedule the time we won’t meet to talk about the big stuff. If it’s not booked, it won’t happen. If it’s not booked, it won’t happen. Recommended CAPM and PMP Prep Books. 7: Do The Work. Click to find out more.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You know the drill – map influence and interest , then work to try to move any negative stakeholders into the quadrant where they should be through interesting communication approaches and stressing the project benefits for them. Richard Newton, in his book, The Project Management Book , sets out another 4 benefits of stakeholder management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 10, 2022

Ensuring teams have these skills allows them to maintain influence with a variety of stakeholders – a critical component for making change. Any reading, research time or learning about: Managing virtual teams Emotional intelligence (start with this book ) Team engagement and team building activities like a scavenger hunt.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I’m probably the ideal audience for this book: I don’t need convincing. I wrote a book about stakeholder engagement too. This book sets out a way to manage stakeholders that many project managers will recognize: Identify and document. This is personal preference and not particularly a disadvantage to the book.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It’s worth noting that the APM Body of Knowledge also covers interpersonal and softer skills, and people like me have been writing books about how important the people stuff is to project management for years. It’s the difference between doing a reasonable job and being seen as a strategic influencer at work. Yes, that’s right!

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Proofhub

JUNE 7, 2022

Book a DEMO now!” For several reasons, higher base pay significantly influences employee retention. Overall, this suggests that employee retention is influenced not just by where individuals work but also by who they work with. A Clear-Cut Employee Purpose Companies with clear objectives enjoy lower turnover rates.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 27, 2020

For example: Any kind of formal or informal training, webinar or podcast on the topics of: Conflict management Negotiation skills Influencing Collaboration techniques (reading my book on collaboration tools would also count) Knowledge transfer tools and techniques.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 27, 2020

grow the influence of individual practitioners! Colin now works with individuals and organisations around the world to help them transform the way they deliver and he does that through writing books (The Project Book being his latest release), keynote speaking and facilitating programs. Her latest book What’s Your Catalyst?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 25, 2022

She’s even written the book on it. Modelling is the reason we don’t want our children to hang out with “the wrong sort of influence” and it is the reason we want them to hang out with “the right sort of people”. Your book covers all of this. Ruth Pearce knows everything there is to know about motivating your project team.

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ProjectManager.com

MAY 19, 2022

Successful CEOs Ram Charan and Larry Bossidy define execution in their book Executive: The Discipline of Getting Things Done : “Execution is a specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have a competitive advantage. Meet Regularly. Without a communication plan, your execution is destined to fail.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 27, 2023

You might have to order supplies or book equipment, but that is easier to manage than people’s time. Use a multi-project, consolidated schedule to plan forward, identifying what support or skills you might need in four or five months’ time if you don’t currently have resources booked.

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The Lazy Project Manager

MARCH 2, 2021

For the second time in 12 months I readjusted my business to meet what market there was and became a PM ‘influencer’ working with companies like Wrike, Clarizen, Microsoft, Sharktower, and more. Won the PMO Influencer of the Year award. And then came lockdown 2.0 (and and then a little later in the year) lockdown 3.0.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The buck stops with me but there are very few ways I can influence the direction of travel. There are peaks and troughs — Peter Taylor, AKA The Lazy Project Manager , talks about this in his book of the same name. Book a call. Let’s look at those. The work is stressful. Project management is stressful.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 21, 2023

Procrastination Procrastination is the biggest productivity killer for over a third of project managers, according to research I did for my book, Managing Multiple Projects. Try to influence your environment to bring more stability to the work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Pernille Eskerod and Anna Lund Jepsen’s book, Project Stakeholder Management Stakeholder management seems to stay a hot topic regardless of what year we’re in. In the book, they argue that proactive stakeholder management is far better than adopting a reactive ‘wait and see’ approach. It remains relevant today.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 22, 2020

You know the drill – map influence and interest , then work to try to move any negative stakeholders into the quadrant where they should be through interesting communication approaches and stressing the project benefits for them. Richard Newton, in his book, The Project Management Book, sets out another 4 benefits of stakeholder management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 7, 2022

Whole books (like this one, my favorite) have been written about how to improve productivity. I’d love to say the answer is to introduce a team productivity tool (especially as I literally wrote the book on collaboration tools for project managers ). People are influenced by the people around them. ” Scott Berkun.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 31, 2023

He is the author of Reinventing Communication by Routledge, a book on how to design, lead and manage high performing projects. You can see Mark’s book, and all the other experts’ books on Amazon here. He is author of 13 best-selling books, including four about project management.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Become an influencer to better guide those following you. So John Maxwell is one of my personal favorite mentors, he writes a lot of books on leadership and a favorite quote of mine that he says is “People buy into the leader before they buy into their vision.” Become an influencer. Number seven.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 24, 2020

The company culture has a lot of influence over what is done and what is ignored not followed up. At one end of the scale you’ve got models like Joanne Flinn’s in her book The Success Healthcheck for IT Projects. You can also talk to your mentor (you can book me for an hour chat if you want someone impartial to talk to!).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 30, 2023

And you can control and influence how you say something by understanding paraverbal communication. Paraverbal communication involves the use of nonverbal cues such as tone and volume to influence how your message is received. In his book, Silent Messages, Prof. But what is this science, you ask.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Or book a power hour with me and get started on your mentoring journey straight away! Do you have any book recommendations on X topic? Who are the key influencers for Y? Book a power hour with me. Book a power hour This article first appeared at Rebel's Guide to Project Management Still looking for a mentor?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 17, 2024

Block out half a day a month Book a meeting with yourself for half a day a month and call it ‘process review’. Book time to write reports Book a recurring meeting to schedule the time in your diary for reporting. Book team meetings for the rest of the year Yep, get them in the diary now. Here are some tips.

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The Lazy Project Manager

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Book your VIP option place here [link]. More information and booking here [link]. Based on the Amazon #1 Bestselling Project Management Book by Peter Taylor. PMO Influencer of the Year 2020 (PMO Global Alliance). Or there is a Self-Study option [link]. Peter Taylor. Grab your place today here [link]. Peter Taylor.

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Project Risk Coach

AUGUST 26, 2019

In her book—Thinking in Bets—author Annie Duke shares an illustration: Suppose someone says, "I flipped a coin and it landed heads four times in a row. Is the flipper a magician who is capable of influencing how the coin lands? Consequently, we fail to challenge assumptions and continue planning and executing based on false notions.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 9, 2019

I recently sat down and interviewed Carole Osterweil and now I am happy to announce that I have two copies of her book, Project Delivery, Uncertainty and Neuroscience: A Leader’s Guide to Walking in Fog, to giveaway! What is the book about? Part Two is primarily a toolkit.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Jennifer defined it as a process whereby a person influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. Transactional leaders are those who influence others by what they offer in exchange for their help. So, leadership is a process where an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2024

Step 2: Assess interest and influence Consider how interested they are in the success of the project and the level of influence or power they have over the project. As projects progress over time, track any changes in interests or influence levels among stakeholders. This helps identify any conflicting requirements.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a project manager, you are expected to have all-round skills encompassing the technical fields of project management like planning and scheduling, through to the interpersonal skills like communicating up and influencing others. Book a power hour with me. And I don’t have them all – I’m aware of that. Need a mentor?

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