Handling Difficult Stakeholders in Project Management

Handling difficult stakeholders in project management
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After undertaking a stakeholders analysis and identifying high-power and high-interest stakeholders, it is essential to understand different stakeholders come with different temperaments. Various stakeholders will show their support or disagreement in different ways. As a project manager, you need to find a way to work with high power, high-interest stakeholders as they have the most interest in your project, and as seen from the analysis, project managers must keep them close ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"L9eLVQxW","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(MindTools, 2007)","plainCitation":"(MindTools, 2007)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":153,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/WvZUWaY4/items/LWBMFWUG"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/WvZUWaY4/items/LWBMFWUG"],"itemData":{"id":153,"type":"webpage","container-title":"MindTools","title":"Stakeholder Analysis: Winning Support for Your Projects","URL":"/pages/article/newPPM_07.htm","author":[{"literal":"MindTools"}],"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2021",4,12]]},"issued":{"date-parts":[["2007"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (MindTools, 2007).
First, always maintain a high level of communication with high-power, high-interest stakeholders ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"3BdkQqtY","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Haynes, 2020)","plainCitation":"(Haynes, 2020)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":154,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/WvZUWaY4/items/UQRFI666"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/WvZUWaY4/items/UQRFI666"],"itemData":{"id":154,"type":"webpage","container-title":"wrike","title":"4 Strategies for Dealing With Difficult Stakeholders","URL":"/blog/4-strategies-dealing-difficult-stakeholders/#Whose-role-is-it-to-manage-stakeholders-on-a-project","author":[{"family":"Haynes","given":"Ian"}],"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2021",4,12]]},"issued":{"date-parts":[["2020",9,25]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Haynes, 2020). High-power high-interest stakeholders will give their input on what they feel is not going right. In an instance where there is a disagreement, do not stop all communication. Discuss the potential changes to the project in the project manager’s view. The project manager must try to see things from the stakeholder’s perspective. As high-priority stakeholders, the project manager needs to find a way to find some common ground ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Qg12QeUF","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Haynes, 2020)","plainCitation":"(Haynes, 2020)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":154,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/WvZUWaY4/items/UQRFI666"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/WvZUWaY4/items/UQRFI666"],"itemData":{"id":154,"type":"webpage","container-title":"wrike","title":"4 Strategies for Dealing With Difficult Stakeholders","URL":"/blog/4-strategies-dealing-difficult-stakeholders/#Whose-role-is-it-to-manage-stakeholders-on-a-project","a...