Category: Managing Project Communications

To better understand these communication principles and improve your communication abilities, let’s review the common best practices used by effective project communicators. We’ll look at general communications management, status reports, conducting meetings, interpersonal skills, and the best use of the common communication media. General Communications Management First, review the best practices of general project communications…

Let’s take a look at the seven key principles employed by most effective project communicators:  Caution In organizations with standard project reports, don’t assume these meet the information needs of your individual stakeholders. Be willing to adjust to better meet their needs.

Before we review key principles and best practices, let’s make sure we understand why we cannot take communications for granted. On one hand, we know instinctively that there are many factors that impact the communications process—primarily because we live it every waking minute. On the other hand, many of us don’t seem to incorporate this…

Project communications are not only important for the obvious reason—keeping individual stakeholders properly and consistently informed on the status, progress, and impact of the project—they are a determinant factor to the overall success of the project. Why is this? Here are a few key reasons:

The communications of a project include all means and manners by which the project interacts with all its stakeholders. This not only includes the standard, formal communication items such as It can also include organizational change management communications, such as Although the nature of your individual project (number and type of stakeholders, location of stakeholders,…

Communication is the fuel that drives project success, and the mishandling of it is a top-five reason why projects struggle. You’ve likely heard this mantra before, but what does this really mean, why is it true, and more importantly, how do we handle our project communications effectively? We answer these questions, review what we mean…