{"id":349,"date":"2020-02-19T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/?p=349"},"modified":"2022-09-01T12:55:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:55:01","slug":"how-do-you-handle-unresponsive-key-project-stakeholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/blog\/how-do-you-handle-unresponsive-key-project-stakeholders\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Handle Unresponsive Key Project Stakeholders?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is a common challenge for anyone who has managed projects for a meaningful amount of time. One or more of your key <a href=\"https:\/\/projectmanagementacademy.net\/resources\/blog\/project-communications-and-stakeholder-engagement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stakeholders who are integral to the successful completion of the project<\/a> appears unwilling to engage as expected. It could be the project sponsor who ignores your pleas for assistance with a project issue, the functional manager who turns a blind eye to your requests for staffing support, or the executive who never seems to have the time to review and sign off on a key deliverable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#f3fbff\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/e360-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/01094754\/Emotional-Intelligence-Free-PDU-Course.jpg\" alt=\"Free Course on Emotional Intelligence\" class=\"wp-image-6604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e360-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/01094754\/Emotional-Intelligence-Free-PDU-Course.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e360-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/2022\/09\/01094754\/Emotional-Intelligence-Free-PDU-Course-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" id=\"block-eef25254-e22e-41f6-826b-cab064e3d095\"><strong>Free Emotional Intelligence PDU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-14690051-2796-4b03-bcb7-95d54bd01fcd\"><em>Develop your Emotional Intelligence as well as your team members in this Free PDU Course!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\t\t\thbspt.enqueueForm({\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tportalId: 3294842,\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tformId: \"9513deed-dab2-44ea-a7fb-33297ddc13b6\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttarget: \"#hbspt-form-1777016786000-0410471000\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tregion: \"na1\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hbspt-form\" id=\"hbspt-form-1777016786000-0410471000\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:10%\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>How should we handle this situation? As usual, \u201c<em>It depends!<\/em>\u201d is the correct, yet, most unhelpful answer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the response varies depending on the scenario, we need to understand the root cause for the behavior and then assess the range of options available to us within the specific context we are facing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four causes for project stakeholder unresponsiveness are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The stakeholder has insufficient capacity to do what we are asking of them<\/li><li>The stakeholder doesn\u2019t appreciate the importance or urgency of the request<\/li><li>The stakeholder has a hidden or visible agenda which is counter to the request<\/li><li>The stakeholder is being influenced or compelled by something else within the system in which they are working to not meet our needs<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 300px; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.hubspot.net\/hubfs\/3294842\/iStock-932342408.jpg\" alt=\"iStock-932342408\" width=\"300\">If the stakeholder isn\u2019t being responsive to an urgent request they are rarely going to tell you the real reason why. You will have to do some digging to determine the truth. It is fairly easy for someone to say they are too busy or they don\u2019t see why your request is important when their real reason is they actually don\u2019t want your project to succeed. Or, they might take the easy route and pass the buck (\u201cI don\u2019t have the authority\u201d) when it could be one of the other reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even still, once you\u2019ve identified the root cause, it may not be easy or even possible to implement an effective countermeasure. For example, if you are delayed on the sign off from a key stakeholder, there is no way to proceed without that key stakeholder\u2019s approval and they are unable or unwilling to appoint a proxy, your project will be delayed. You might have done a great job of informing all other stakeholders in a timely manner about the cause and impact of the issue, but if schedule performance is one of your project\u2019s success criteria, it won\u2019t be met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why the scope of risk management is so critical. Identifying critical dependencies, failure points in decision processes and stakeholder unresponsiveness issues from past projects can help us to be better prepared. It can also be helpful to identify common decisions over the life of a project and define the decision processes and exception paths up front before we find ourselves in trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You can\u2019t control other people. 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