VIEWPOINTS

Dealing With Bad Guys A Viewpoint on Tough Stakeholder Management

By Florin Gheorghiu
Project Manager

Bucharest, Romania

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As a Project Manager you are called to turn the strategic objectives entrusted by the corporate and management into acceptable deliverable which have to meet the requirements; you exist to make the dreams come true or to seek the solution to a company’s problems. A project manager though does not hold the panacea for giving a solution to a problem.

You have to deal with processes, corporate standards and methodologies, enterprise assets, ground rules and norms, laws and prescriptions; but above all these things you have to deal with people who represent the living essence of all the institutional rules and regulatory documents.

Interaction with various people define our success or failure when in project management environment; either you are on Client, Contractor or Consultant side or you have to face daily many people of various interests to your project and various understanding of overall project needs. Some of them are behind you, supporting you and the project objectives as project team members, or your sponsor or steering committees. Others are external but whose actions influence positively or negatively your job performance in the project execution and the project success itself.

For all these people you meet physically or virtually on your project, you as the project manager must be handed sophisticated techniques for deciphering, decoding and translating their behavior and actions.  You must assemble them into some simple rules to guide you easier through a complicated array of situations.

Some of the Stakeholders will always be with you simply because irrespective they like you or they have a keen interest in project completion on time, on scope, on budget.

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About the Author Florin Gheorghiu, PMP Author International Correspondent-Romania Based in Bucharest Florin Gheorghiu, PMP, is an International Correspondent for PM World Today in Bucharest, Romania. Florin is also currently a Professional Project Manager and Head of Engineering and Planning Department for a local based branch of a Bucharest utility Company in the field of power and heat. He is also experienced working for EPC contracts within the construction industry for the industrial and real estate sectors.  Florin has added much to its professional accruals when working on large power plant rehabilitation program financed by the International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD) and the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), and for Parsons Power (Gilbert Commonwealth), Lahmeyer International and Pennsylvania Power & Light (PP&L) as a project Consultant.  He is now with ENEL GREEN POWER, ENEL’s Division of Renewable Energy in Romania where he is acting as Project Manager for Wind Farm Construction, Engineering and O&M Issues.  Florin is a graduate of the Technical University of Bucharest in Power Engineering and the National School for Political Studies and Administration in Management. Mr. Gheorghiu can be contacted at fgheorghiu2001@yahoo.com.and florin.gheorghiu@enel.ro