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6 Principles for Building Trusting and Lasting Relationships with Your Stakeholders

Your ability to build trusting and lasting relationships with your stakeholders is one of the key ingredients to becoming a successful project manager. To improve the way you communicate and interact with people, use the below best practice principles. As you read through them, ask yourself how good you are on a scale from 1 to 10 at using that particular principle in your daily interactions.

Jul 2016Read More: 6 Principles for Building Trusting and Lasting Relationships with Your Stakeholders

3 Data Points You Must Include In Project Communications

This is a guest article by Elizabeth Harrin from GirlsGuideToPM.com People get hung up on what to include in project reporting and their stakeholder communications. Often I see people include a lot of history and the journey to where they are now in their project, but in my experience, there are only 3 data points that you really need to worry about in your regular reporting.

Jul 2016Read More: 3 Data Points You Must Include In Project Communications

The Most Common Communication Mistakes Project Managers Make

Don’t get me wrong! A lot of project managers are doing a fantastic job of organizing and delivering their projects and keeping their clients happy. But it’s probably still true, that the majority of PMs are stronger with the harder skills of creating plans and reports than with the softer skills of communicating and motivating people. The below mistakes are the ones I the most often see project managers make when it comes to the softer communication skills.

Jun 2016Read More: The Most Common Communication Mistakes Project Managers Make

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