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Influencing and negotiating to get the people you need
From the course: Managing Resources Across Project Teams
Influencing and negotiating to get the people you need
- Often as project manager or program manager, you're not the line manager of the people on your projects and you have to negotiate to get the ones you want from their other work. This involves influencing their line managers to release them and influencing the people themselves to want to come and work on your project. First, how would you persuade a person to come and work on your project? Five ideas, number one, shows them that it's an interesting project. It's going to cover new ground. It's going to include all sorts of interesting work or technology or equipment, whatever you know that they like or are interested in. Second, that it's an important project. It's going to make a difference to the organization, maybe even to the world. It's the first of its kind, it's going to get noticed. Third, that it's got a great team. The other people on the project are all really fun or nice or good people to learn from and get…
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Selecting people to join your project teams3m 12s
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Securing the people you need on your project teams3m 57s
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Influencing and negotiating to get the people you need4m 37s
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Managing changes in project resource requirements4m 31s
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Self-organizing teams and managing project resources4m 55s
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