Abstract A widespread desire to improve organizational performance may be sated by focusing on a key set of necessary and high priority actions—imperatives. An essential focus on creating excellence in people, processes, and the working environment reaps tremendous benefits and enables executives and their organizations to achieve desired objectives. Leadership skills and environmental factors provide…
Category: project sponsorship
Training Course for Project Sponsors
Develop excellence in PROJECT SPONSORSHIP. Now through the end of December, purchase discounted access for only $19 to virtual mini course covering all steps to achieve management commitment for project success. Brought to you by Randall Englund and Alfonso Bucero MSc,ACE,PMP, PMI-RMP,PfMP, IPMO-E, PMI Fellow.
Podcast about Executive Imperatives
Randy Englund narrates presentation on necessary high priority actions to improve organizational performance. Click to listen to audio version podcast of Executive Imperatives:
Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success – AGAIN
My article titled: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success has “Published” on Monday, August 14, 2017 on the Portal ProjectTimes. Below is a link to the article. It highlights the pervasive problem surrounding lack of project support from upper managers and suggests actions to take. https://www.projecttimes.com/articles/achieving-management-commitment-for-project-success.html
Are You Getting the Support You Need? Probably NOT!
In this blog post, I highlight the dismal state of upper management support for projects, then reference suggestions that would help.
Getting Others to Accept “No”
This post deals with the difficult challenge of saying “No” when the pressure is on to say “Yes.”
Effective Stakeholder Communications
This post highlights how effective communications start with you. It summarizes our presentation at the PMI Global Congress North America in San Diego.
Why Train Sponsors?
To the question, Why Train Sponsors?, this post offers selling points to achieve management commitment for project success.
Driving Organizational Performance
Driving Organizational Performance On on-going quest in most all organizations is to improve performance, especially on project-based work. It takes a concerted effort to make improvements, not just depending on accidents, luck, or wishful thinking. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/driving-organizational-performance-randall-randy-englund?trk=prof-post
Opening Doors for Project Sponsors
A universal objective is to achieve better results from project-based work. Excellence in sponsorship as a major role in optimizing outcomes is a fervent belief held by colleague Alfonso Bucero, myself, and many others. Sponsor performance on many projects, however, is a very different story. A sponsor initiates, funds, and supports the project from inception…