Building a Working Relationship with Your Project Sponsor – With Jonathan Norman | Video

Jonathan Norman, from the Major Projects Association, has had a lifelong interest in relationships and how we communicate in the workplace. That’s why I wanted to speak with him about Building a working relationship with your project sponsor.

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Jonathan Norman

Jonathan Norman is the Knowledge Manager at the Major Projects Association. There, he is responsible for the content on their rich and deep YouTube Channel.

Jonathan spent most of his career in publishing – having commissioned many of the best and most important Project Management books over the last 30 years – sadly, though, none of mine!

And Jonathan has had a lifelong interest in relationships and how we communicate in the workplace. We recently collaborated in a webinar on Transactional Analysis for the Major Projects Association.

Working Relationship with Your Project Sponsor

We discuss:

1. Establishing the relationship
2. Agreeing the process
3. Dealing with the challenges

See Jonathan Norman’s work with the Major Project’s Association

• Major Projects Knowledge Community YouTube Channel
• Major Projects Knowledge
• Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn

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• Working with Your Project Sponsor: 5 Tips
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  • Rogue Project Sponsor: What to Do when Sponsorship goes Bad
• What is Transactional Analysis?
• …also our article: 9 Transactional Analysis Tools that All Project Managers Must Know
• Project Communication: Stop Using Telegrams – Get Better Project Results
• Challenging Communication Tips for Better Project Communication
• Sunflower Bias

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