https://www.wrike.com/blog/project-stakeholder-management-pmchat/ - At a #PMChat discussion on Twitter, we asked project managers to share advice on best practices and common roadblocks in a challenging project management area: stakeholder management. Experienced project managers from around the world shared their wisdom with us, and now we’ve collected their thoughts and distilled them into these 9 tips. Implement them for more successful projects.

1. Tips to Improve Your
Relationship with
Project Stakeholders
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2. Stakeholder management
has always been a tricky business.
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3. Your job starts the
day a project begins,
and doesn’t end until
after the post-project
reflection meetings.
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4. Your job starts the
day a project begins,
and doesn’t end until
after the post-project
reflection meetings.
And you have to keep
your stakeholders
happy & engaged
the entire time.
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5. …In other words, you need superpowers.
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6. We spoke to project managers from around the
world to hear their best advice on stakeholder
management.
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Read on to see what tips they shared⤑

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Don’t forget any stakeholders!
Bring in team members, project sponsors, and ANYONE
who has an interest in the project outcome.
Tip 1

8. Which stakeholders are most often neglected?
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The people
impacted by your
project —
like your customers
and users!
↴
Tip 2

9. Build a good relationship with
stakeholders before you need it.
Tip 3
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10. Communicate with
people in the way that
best suits their style,
not your style:
face-to-face, phone calls,
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Tip 4

11. Good managers are behavioral scientists.
Learn what makes people tick and use it to
motivate them. (Candy, anyone?)
Tip 5
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12. Get stakeholder input and feedback early. Use
this interaction to get them to really care about
the project outcome.
Tip 6
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13. When new requests come in, highlight
the impact on your project schedule.
Tip 7

14. Give consistent project updates geared
toward different stakeholder interests.Tip 8
Always include real numbers and real results.
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15. When there is good news or
press, point the spotlight
at your stakeholders
instead of yourself.
Tip 9
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16. Want more advice on
stakeholder management?
Read more advice from
experienced managers
on the Wrike blog.
Go to the Wrike blog
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