The theme for the Arras People Podcast this month is stakeholders and the politics of project management: these are the unavoidable office politics and that necessary stakeholder management that can bog down a project before it ever really gets a flow going has garnered our attention.
You can't run from it, either: stakeholder engagement is about communicating the project's end products, uses and ultimate affect on those who will feel either the brunt of it or the necessity of it (dependent on their perspective). Here are the tips you can glean from this month's podcast to use going forward:
- An introduction to stakeholder management: What & who are the stakeholders, do they change throughout the project’s timeline, and is there classification fixed?
- A thorough analysis of the tools and psychology that can help you effectively manage stakeholders
- Q&A: Our newest recruiter, Steve Trippier, pontificates on one candidate’s desire to convince recruiters through his CV about the veracity of their stakeholder management skills
In the Newsletter version, you can also ponder these articles:
- Book Review: Guest contributor Geri McLeary reviews Elaine Douglas’ Bullying in the Workplace, a new title from Arras’ publishing partner Gower Publishing
- Political savvy: our Lindsay Scott ponders complex stakeholder management, with tips on how to earn credibility with each stakeholder and determines whether or not it is – in fact – a competence
