3. Agenda
Brief overview of the Stakeholder
Engagement Focus Group (SEFG)
The Project Sponsor
Project Stakeholders
4. Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group
Encouraging stakeholders across the PM community to
make Stakeholder Engagement a higher priority
We are an integral part of the People SIG
Our mission:
Our ‘Home’:
5. Stakeholder Engagement Focus Group
How are we doing this?
Raising awareness
– Giving Stakeholder Engagement more attention at events
– Challenging the status quo
Supporting practitioners
– Developing the APM Stakeholder Engagement website
– Making online resources accessible to all
– Building case studies and resources
Sharing knowledge, tools & methods
– Forging links with SIGs, academia and industry bodies
– Signposting relevant research and development
7. The Project Sponsor (SRO)
Where does the Project Sponsor sit?
How is the Project Sponsor appointed?
What are the responsibilities of the
Project Sponsor?
What training does the Project Sponsor
receive?
8. Key Characteristics
Authority
– To make decisions, provide resources
People, funding, facilities, equipment
Credibility
Ability to delegate
– Allow the PM enough space to manage the
project
Don’t get involved in the detail
Availability
9. Project Sponsor (SRO)
The role of sponsor is an important part
of the project puzzle.
No / absent sponsor:
– Project Manager has to take up the slack
– Often without time and clout
15. Classify
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 3
Direct / major affect on
progress of project
Will have a moderate affect on
progress of project
Will have limited, if any, affect
on progress of project
19. Communication
If you are a stakeholder
– Make yourself known to the Sponsor
– Make yourself known to the Project Manager
– Maintain your interest throughout
26. Q1 • IQ
Change Leadership
Solution-Focused Problem Solving,
Ideation, Cognitive Adaptability,
Possibility Thinking,
Using Mistakes, Challenges or
Failures to Fail Forward/ Create Solutions &
Grit
Prime Your Brain
Setting Feelings for
Optimization of Thoughts,
Enhanced Ability to Learn-Relearn,
Improved Decision Making,
Simplification of the Complex,
Optimization of Time/Ability
Q2 • EQ
Engagement
Self-Awareness And Management,
Empowerment, Relationship Management,
Effective Communication Across
Internal/External Boundaries
Improved relationship with
change/challenges and stressors
Prime Yourself
Increased Resiliency/Risk Tolerance,
Emotional and Social Adaptability,
Greater Happiness and Productivity
Q3 • SQ
Results that GROW at the Speed of
Change
Innovation-Autonomy-Interdependence-
Accountability-Purpose-Results
(Critical as strengthening SQ also
strengthens the right hemisphere of the
brain which is typically weaker)
Prime Yourself And Others To Flourish
Values, Enhancing Purpose of Thought,
Communication, Collaboration and Action
and Intrinsic Motivators that keep you
Learning, Living and Leading Forward when
the going gets tough
27. Thank you
Call to action:
– Please have a look at our web pages
– Please comment on these pages
Is there anything you would like to see
– Please contribute
– www.apm.org.uk/stakeholder-
engagement
SEFG@APM.Org.uk
@ApmSefg