Many projects suffer delays and/or failures because: Engaged project sponsors are crucial for success “Accidental” project sponsors exist Many sponsors are unaware of roles and responsibilities. Now is the time to invest in a quick and easy mini course on “Achieving Excellence in Project Sponsorship,” brought to you by experienced practitioners Randall Englund and Alfonso…
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Necessary Ingredients To Improve Organizational Performance: Executive Imperatives
An update is available as a LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/executive-imperatives-necessary-ingredients-improve-updated-englund/. A widespread desire to improve organizational performance may be sated by focusing on a key set of executive imperatives—necessary and high priority actions. Personal experiences reveal that an essential focus on creating excellence in people, processes, and the working environment reaps tremendous benefits and enables executives…
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.
Think Like a Sponsor
This post helps change thinking on how to handle project sponsors.
Why Train Sponsors?
To the question, Why Train Sponsors?, this post offers selling points to achieve management commitment for project success.
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…