CHAPTER 4

Collaborative Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement, and Performance

In agile organizations, future-oriented, collaborative leaders are important to achieving outstanding performance. Providing supervision, monitoring group performance, and developing an organization structure are important traditional skills to cultivate. Modern leaders need to especially focus on coaching, task performance, and producing results. Also, modern leaders must empower others and provide feedback to develop and motivate them.

Both client and stakeholder engagement are important determinants of success. For this reason, it is necessary that a project leader encourages and facilitates discussions between stakeholders and the project team. A team should make ...

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