MPUG

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

According to our recent MPUG survey, 53% of project managers rank stakeholder management as their biggest challenge and it’s often these invisible influencers who create the most significant impacts. ” This simple question often reveals critical hidden influencers. The ripples extend far beyond the initial point of impact.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Project stakeholder management and saliency Project management relies on people: you need the project team to get things done, and that team might include members of different stakeholder groups. Power Power is a measure of how much influence they have over actions and outcomes. An example would be the board of a company.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

These can influence the outcome of the project, program or portfolio so they must be managed. That’s why project managers and their teams need to take time to identify enterprise environmental factors that might influence their projects and figure out an action plan to mitigate or respond to them in a timely, effective manner.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 1, 2018

That, she explained, is a person with the ability to lead a group of people towards achieving a common goal. That means before the leader can direct the group, the group needs to trust and be willing to follow the leader. Become an influencer to better guide those following you. In Review – Leadership KPIs.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 7, 2022

In these projects, stakeholders are identified and communicated with in the ‘normal’ way, but their power and influence is relatively low. The final type of project at the other end of the continuum is where stakeholders have a lot of power and influence over the project. Stakeholder-neutral. IT projects often fall into this category.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 5, 2019

In project management terms, a stakeholder is an individual or group that will be impacted by the outcome of the project. They are often active, and they can have a positive or negative influence depending on their actions. This is because stakeholders represent such a large and diverse group. You can’t please every stakeholder.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 26, 2017

Activity: Divide you group into teams of three and give each group two one-dollar coins. Activity: Dividing group into smaller teams, each of which gets an envelope of cards quartered into triangles. Activity: Dividing group into smaller teams, each of which gets an envelope of cards quartered into triangles. Reorganize.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 22, 2021

A stakeholder map is a visual, four-quadrant influence-interest matrix used to identify stakeholders and categorize them in terms of their influence and interest in the project. A stakeholder with both a high level of influence and interest needs to be managed closely. Try it for yourself today! What Is a Stakeholder Map?

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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

JULY 12, 2024

They can take a diverse group of individuals, form a high performing team, and get them dedicated to achieving a common goal. Influencing and negotiating While we may work in a variety of environments, most of the time we do not have 100% control over the budget and resources allocated to the project.

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NimbleWork

OCTOBER 21, 2024

At the helm of this shift are a group of visionary leaders who are pushing the boundaries of how projects are managed. 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.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

That affects how people make choices – and we can influence those choices by how we frame a statement. Framing occurs when people identify the key issues in a situation and then present them in a way that will influence the decision that is made. In other words, we seek out loss aversion more than we seek out gains.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 28, 2021

Maybe you’ve seen a new team of baseball players, a music group, a civic group, or a business team. Use your interpersonal skills to influence the resource manager and others who select the team members. Watch what happens when new teams are formed? Let's explore ways to improve the performance of your project teams.

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Project Risk Coach

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Which stakeholders have the most power and influence? Stakeholder engagement includes ways to attract and involve individuals, groups, and organizations who may be affected by a project or may affect the project. Are You Actually Influencing Your Project Stakeholders? Do you have a stakeholder engagement plan?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

They might be influenced by market conditions (risk appetite statements might change, for example, if the market suddenly gets a lot more competitive). They serve the same purpose – to influence the context and environment for the project – except they are external influences instead of internal influences.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Their success is not based on clever interpretations of famous quotes or methodologies, but on unifying a group to achieve a common goal. This game involves having a group stand in a circle and hold hands. First, blindfold one person in the group. Set up an audience and a group to perform. Pass the Hoop.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 10, 2024

They’ll be able to influence those affected by the change or have a personality that can help guide others or overcome resistance to change. It can be a group of people. A change champion network is a group of employees who together act as the bridge between management and employees during an organizational change initiative.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 27, 2020

I support project managers individually through 1:1 mentoring , and also through my small group membership scheme, Project Management Rebels. I’m constantly trying my best to bring great experts into the group and provide members with personalised responses to their questions. grow the influence of individual practitioners!

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Some work better in groups and others alone. Most people don’t think about their work style, but when individuals try to collaborate as a group, team or business, then divergent work styles can block progress. There are certain personality types that influence your work style. 6 Types of Different Work Styles. Learn more.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 29, 2021

Project Management Rebels is a teaching-led group mentoring programme. Soft skills include: Communication Leadership Self-awareness Confidence Resilience Teamwork Business acumen Influencing and negotiating Networking. It’s a library of curated resources with something new added each month. It is open for enrolment through 16 April.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Stakeholders are the people, groups or organizations that have a key interest in the outcome of a project. Given their influence, it’d be unwise to neglect your stakeholder management plan. They are usually sorted into two groups: internal and external stakeholders. They have that much power. List Your Stakeholders.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 21, 2020

Next, the team comes together to review the input and group ideas. The AI in Parabol automatically suggests headings for each of the groups based on the content of the cards, but you can edit those to be whatever you want. You can keep ideating in the grouping section if you want to add anything else.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

Since good decision-making is critical for good leadership and guidance, project managers need to know how heuristics (mental disposition) and biases (personal inclinations) influence a project manager’s decisions. What are heuristics? This occurs when people use representative association rather than factual analysis.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 5, 2024

PRINCE2 defines a stakeholder like this: Any individual, group, or organization that can affect or be affected by (or perceives itself to be affected by) the project. The broader your list, the more likely it is that you’ll have identified the potential impact the group of people could have on your project.

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ProjectManager.com

JUNE 20, 2017

Who are the people or groups of people both inside and outside the project who will be impacted? Any change that is going to influence the project needs to be uncovered. For example, you’ll want to identify major business events, locations, functions and any processes affected by the project.

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Project Risk Coach

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Project stakeholders are individuals, groups, and organizations that may affect or be affected by your projects. Their power, interest, influence, expectations, and impact differ greatly. Once the key stakeholders are determined, it's time to develop a stakeholder engagement plan and influence them at the right times.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 18, 2022

This is where you gain a consolidated understanding of your current workload in a way that helps you see patterns and groupings across all the things you are doing. The pieces of the framework are: Portfolio Plan People Productivity Positioning. Let’s look at each of those.

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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. You probably already know that how you say something is just as important as what you say.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 10, 2023

Stakeholder Mapping Stakeholder Mapping is about grouping stakeholders based on how you want to engage them. Matrix of Influence Source: Book Product Mastery by Geoff Watts Image Created By Lavaneesh Gautam. High Influence High Interest: This is the most important group and you need to collaborate with them.

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

But you can break them down into two groups: project management tools and people. Think of project controls as the mechanism that keeps a project on schedule when planning and executing, keeping costs within budget. The People Part of Project Controls. Project controls are a combination of many things.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

There is also some background information on how individuals and groups respond to risk. This can lead us to set up risk management activities that are less than effective, or influence our approaches to managing project risk. Clayton also covers common things that affect our ability to make good judgements, such as the anchoring bias.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

There two options for the course: a fully-online, self-study version and a VIP option which combines the on-demand video and with 5 group coaching calls and personal support via email and Voxer so you’ve always got a place to go for your questions. The live calls start on 15 February 2021, so if you are interested, sign up soon!

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 16, 2021

Soft skills include: Communication Leadership Self-awareness Confidence Resilience Teamwork Business acumen Influencing and negotiating Networking Stakeholder engagement. They can take a diverse group of individuals, form a high performing team, and get them dedicated to achieving a common goal. Influencing and negotiating.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 19, 2021

Underneath, I list skills grouped together by: Interpersonal skills Leadership. They include: Communication (written and verbal) Listening Stakeholder engagement Conflict management Negotiation Influencing Leadership Team building Change management. Mine is called ‘Skills Profile’. Hard skills.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. Is the role of the corporate strategy director dead, to be replaced with a PMO and a group of enterprising project managers who can advise strategically? What do you think?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 10, 2020

It organizes stakeholders into groups according to how much they participate in the project, what their interest level is and how much influence they have. These stakeholders are going to be part of the influential group. You can discern this by using an influence-interest matrix, which is a box broken into four sections.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In terms of balancing workload across teams, the matrix facilitates discussions about workload, which helps managers redistribute tasks so no group is overwhelmed or underutilized. Factors that can influence the decision include time, resources , financial costs or complexity. The matrix sets realistic expectations.

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