Conversations that Build Stronger Relationships

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Project managers and team members are often challenged by how to initiate tough conversations with critical project stakeholders and team members. There’s little wonder why: Have you ever received contradictory messages from different (or even the same) key people, but didn’t know how to confront the discrepancy? Ever had difficulty getting team members to share a sense of urgency about delivering the project? Find it hard to get your senior team engaged in making difficult trade-offs when they don’t even want to hear the choices?

Many project managers have learned to “suck it up” when their attempts to communicate are rejected, which is not in the best interest of the project. They will try to resolve the situation on their own, or hope it improves without intervention—often to find out that just the opposite is true. The issues that derail, sidetrack, or slow down projects most often have their roots in interpersonal barriers, which prevent timely resolution of issues.

If we were to learn to communicate better with one another, with more transparency and collaboration, we might in fact prevent many of the technical issues that surface from the inability of the organization to raise risks and make trade-offs proactively.
What can you do to build relationships based on active engagement and outcomes-oriented dialogue?

In this May 10th webinar led by senior consultant, Mike Halperin, we’ll introduce tools and concepts that will help better frame the why’s and how’s of these tough conversations on critical project management problems. Attendees will also be introduced to several strategies that, if used, will facilitate conversations that build stronger relationships that ultimately lead to more effective projects.

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