Correctly managing your stakeholders is key to the success and continuous improvement of any project or business. The ability to understand, manage and build a rapport with the key stakeholders whether it is your customers, employees, investors, leaders, or project team members, correct management will set the business/project apart from everyone else.

This one-day training course will provide you with the invaluable experience, tools, and techniques to gaining buy-in and approval across a range of interested parties with often different and conflicting interests.

It will show you how to classify key stakeholders, implement a management strategy and monitor results. This day will be a hands-on training session with exercises and discussions to give attendees the best knowledge to take away and implement in their role immediately.

Course Content

• Avoiding Common Mistakes

• Top Leadership Challenges in Managing Stakeholders

• Influencing Stakeholders

• Effective Stakeholder Management Plans

• Planning and Running project meetings

• Presentation Skills

• Stakeholder Engagement Matrix

• Managing Stakeholder Expectations

• The importance of a Communication Plan

• Key classification models- power/interest

• Monitoring results from implemented strategies

• Handling remote stakeholders/teams

• Stakeholder analysis

• Practical exercises

Who Should Attend

This course will be of interest to portfolio, programme and project managers who are involved with managing stakeholders to accomplish project goals. This course is for both new and experienced managers in this role.

Certification

On completion of this one-day training course, you will receive your Certificate of Attendance. Please note certificates are issued at the close of the training course to participants on completion of the course. Please check directly with your association or awarding body to see how many points they will award.

Cost

An ‘Early Bird’ discounted rate of €485 is currently available. This training course normal rate is €585. Places are limited and are allocated on a first come first served basis. PLEASE NOTE THE EARLY BIRD RATE CLOSES 3 WEEKS PRIOR TO COURSE DATE.

The course cost includes all course documentation and certificate of attendance.