Stakeholder Management Training Course

Course Overview

Sharpen your skills with our Stakeholder Management Training Course. Success, in today’s business landscape, is defined by stakeholders—suppliers, customers, employees, shareholders, financiers, and more. Projects increase stakeholder diversity, because of the indirect reporting lines, which often cross functional or even organizational boundaries, now more than ever, analyzing and effectively managing high-priority relationships is a priority.

This certification offers insights from short and specific theory blocks covering best practices, interactive exercises simulating stakeholder management situations, case studies analysis, and video material interpretation, and more. Furthermore, this course guides you in exploring Reflective Practice as a valuable tool for analyzing stakeholder interactions. Through a systematic process, you will gain insights and practical knowledge that can be applied for future applications. This not only enhances your overall effectiveness but also making a lasting impression across organizational levels.

Key Highlights:

  1. Explore high-priority stakeholder collaboration aspects
  2. Apply a defined stakeholder management process
  3. Distinguish high-priority stakeholders
  4. Develop the key relationships with the high-priority stakeholders
  5. Navigate high-pressure scenarios and resolve disagreements productive

Who Should Attend

  • Develop an understanding of the stakeholder environment
  • Craft strategies and plans that lead to successful outcomes
  • Create impactful actions to manage stakeholder expectations
  • Achieve beneficial outcomes from challenging situations
  • Learn from experience and constantly improves your knowledge, skills, and practices

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Develop an understanding of the stakeholder environment
  • Craft strategies and plans that lead to successful outcomes
  • Create impactful actions to manage stakeholder expectations
  • Achieve beneficial outcomes from challenging situations
  • Learn from experience and constantly improves your knowledge, skills, and practices

Course Content

First Principles of Managing Stakeholders

  • Self-assessment of current skill levels and identification of areas for development
  • The stakeholder engagement lifecycle, process, and key stages
  • The potential outcomes from poorly conducted stakeholder engagement
  • Negative factors in stakeholder engagements and how to avoid them
  • Critical success factors in successful stakeholder engagements

Developing an Appropriate Personal Brand and Projecting a Strong Image

  • What is a personal brand and what does appropriate mean?
  • The elements of a successful personal brand – education, experience, personality, authenticity, values, performance, providing value, consistency
  • Developing your value proposition and ‘elevator pitch’
  • How to create presentations and reports that impress stakeholders
  • Gaining access to senior stakeholders

Assessing the High Priority Stakeholders

  • Circles of Influence, differing frameworks and their use
  • A range of frameworks for assessing stakeholder priority and their pros and cons
  • Stakeholders’ self-image, needs, concerns and behaviors
  • Social style – quickly analyze stakeholder behavior and decide how to respond for a positive outcome – a deep dive into the technique
  • Influencing without power, techniques, and tips for making a high impact

Engaging and Managing Your Stakeholders

  • Developing a stakeholder communications strategy
  • Identifying specific concerns and tailoring the messages accordingly
  • Creating a tailored stakeholder communications and engagement plan
  • Setting up and managing stakeholder meetings
  • Managing disagreements and moving to a productive outcome

Negotiating Successful Outcomes

  • The processes of negotiation
  • Developing your negating position
  • Negotiating using a principled approach
  • Dealing with challenges
  • Driving negotiations to mutually successful outcomes

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Location: Dubai, UAE
Duration: 5 Days
Language: English
Cost: 15,770 SAR
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