Guides for project leads.
Straight answers to the questions that come up when work waits on a sponsor: approvals, status updates, sponsors who go quiet, steering meetings, and what a sponsor is for.
How to speed up the stakeholder approval process
How to write an approval request a sponsor can answer from their phone, with a worked example. · 6 min read
How to write a project status update stakeholders actually read
The order to write a one-minute update in, with a filled-in example for a project sponsor. · 5 min read
Project status page vs status report: which do your stakeholders need?
What a status report does that a portal can’t, the reverse, and how to run both from one source. · 5 min read
What to do about unresponsive stakeholders
Seven steps for when answers stop coming, from checking it’s really silence to knowing when to escalate. · 5 min read
How to run a steering update without slides
A one-page pre-read and a meeting spent on decisions, with the template to copy. · 4 min read
What does a project sponsor do?
The six duties a sponsor holds, how that differs from the project manager, and how to make the role easy. · 4 min read