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AJ7 Oversee project costs, quality and progress

AJ7.4 Keep stakeholders informed of project progress

Performance Required

This will involve:

1. providing the key stakeholders with timely, forward-looking and relevant information which is consistent with the project plans
2. providing team members and higher-level managers with effective opportunities to contribute to the information you provide
3. ensuring that the content of the information meets your stakeholders' needs, while maintaining agreements on confidentiality
4. providing information in styles and formats most appropriate to the types of stakeholders involved
5. ensuring that your distribution methods are effective in reaching the key stakeholders
6. actively seeking and assessing information from stakeholders which may affect the running of the project.

Occuptional Context

1. Team members
   • researchers
   • excavators
   • curators
2. Stakeholders
   • public / private
   • individual / group
   • commercial / academic
   • contributors / benefactors
   • internal / external

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know about:

Communication

• The methods which may be used to keep stakeholders up-to-date and how to agree methods appropriate to different groups
• Communication skills appropriate to different stakeholders needs

Information handling

• The importance of ensuring information is consistent with agreements on confidentiality
• The use of appropriate methods for disseminating information (minutes, reports, e-mai

Involvement and motivation

• The importance of involving other relevant people in producing information
• The contributions other relevant people can make to information and how to involve them

Organisational context

• The range of stakeholders you need to keep informed

Working relationships

• The importance of keeping all key stakeholders informed on project progress.

Required Skills

• N/A

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can keep stakeholders informed of project progress

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore how they:

• kept internal and external stakeholders informed of project progress

Evidence Rules

The candidate should have been involved in at least 2 substantive projects.

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