From the course: How to Become a Project Management Entrepreneur
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Effective collaboration with clients
From the course: How to Become a Project Management Entrepreneur
Effective collaboration with clients
- When you start working with a client, you want to be happy with the results you deliver. That way, they'll want to work with you again and can act as a reference in the future. Effective collaboration and communication is an important part of making clients happy. The work you do for a client is a project in itself. Even when it's part of a larger project the client has. To be successful, treat your contract or agreements with the client like a project plan. Work with them to identify the requirements for your work to find the deliverables and scope of work. Be sure to ask what are the success criteria to determine that you've completed your assignment? What schedule and budget have been defined for your work? What constraints do you and the client have for that work? You might be tempted to over promise what you can deliver in order to win an opportunity. Resist that temptation. When you over promise, one of two things are…
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