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From the Lesson Archive: Building Better Stakeholders, Allies & Sponsors
Transform your approach to stakeholder management with this comprehensive lesson from PM expert Carl Pritchard. Going beyond basic frameworks, this session reveals how to turn stakeholders into true project champions.
What You'll Learn:
How to leverage organizational mission statements to clarify stakeholder needs
Practical application of the salience model for stakeholder prioritization
Strategies for balancing conflicting stakeholder interests
Techniques to turn stakeholder challenges into opportunities
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PM Best Practice: Power-Influence Grid
Before your next stakeholder meeting, create a quick power-influence grid. List stakeholders on sticky notes and arrange them on two axes: Power (ability to make changes) and Influence (informal authority). You'll quickly spot who needs more attention - and who might be flying under your radar.
Here's a How-To article from the Project Management Institute with an example included.
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