Many thanks to David Maxfield and Vital Smarts for providing us with these
insights on AWOL sponsors. An AWOL sponsor doesn't provide
leadership, political clout, time, or energy to see a project
through to completion. David will be a speaker at the 2010
Resource Planning Summit.
Key findings include:
- 65 percent of project leaders experience problems with AWOL
sponsors.
- About half of those make some attempt to bring up their
concerns.
- 88 percent indicate that conversations on this subject are
difficult if not impossible to have in their organizations.
- Fewer than one in five project leaders who suffer from AWOL
sponsors are able to hold the crucial conversation in a way that
solves the problem.
When the project leader fails to resolve AWOL sponsor problems,
projects are destined the fail.
Resonate with you? Sure did with me.
--Marti @ the Summit
