Stakeholder Management Skills
Maintaining Critical Project Support
Stakeholder management is essential to a successful project. Projects can fail because the project manager doesn't know who the "real" stakeholders are or because the project manager hasn't actively involved key decision makers in determining project strategy and direction. The strategic project manager uses the opinions of stakeholders to shape a project at an early stage, keeping support throughout the lifecycle of their project and improving project quality down the line.
Project managers are often faced with the challenge of completing a project without having the necessary authority to meet the challenge. The ability to effectively influence others is often the solution to achieving desired results. This skill is used daily in meetings and business discussions and when constructing and communicating the business case for a new initiative.
Building consensus, properly managing stakeholder expectations, and translating a concept or initiative into a range of viable options for achieving organizational goals are all critical competencies for today's project managers.
The following courses will help you develop the critical stakeholder management abilities needed for achieving project success.
Influence Skills: Getting Results without Direct Authority
Course 294 • 4 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Apply influence strategies to gain commitment from others and foster collaboration
- Define desired outcomes for win-win results
- Dynamically adjust your approach to others to gain buy-in
- Achieve goals by enhancing trust and cooperation
- Deal effectively with challenging behaviours to overcome resistance and inertia in others
- Use knowledge and competence rather than position and status to influence others
► Get more details and a current schedule Facilitation Skills
Course 905 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Facilitate goal-oriented results through planning, collaboration and consensus
- Maintain facilitative focus by adopting the right frame of mind
- Create a targeted agenda to make meetings productive
- Start up, manage and close effective meetings
- Resolve disagreement using a range of consensus-building techniques
- Develop and implement a facilitative action plan
► Get more details and a current schedule Building an Effective Business Case
Course 212 • 3 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Analyze, create and communicate a successful business case to meet your organization's unique needs
- Translate a concept or initiative into a range of viable options for achieving organizational goals
- Identify and compare costs and benefits of alternative solutions
- Apply risk assessment techniques to forecast and mitigate potential problems
- Prioritize alternative solutions according to key decision criteria
- Present the business case effectively to critical stakeholders to gain acceptance
► Get more details and a current schedule Complex Project Management
Course 287 • 4 Days
You Will Learn How To:
- Manage complex projects involving strategic risks and aggressive time scales
- Incorporate the emerging science of complexity thinking into your project management strategies
- Apply a unique complexity assessment model and an adaptive four-step process to strategic projects
- Minimize uncertainty by leveraging best practices from Critical Chain, Agile and Lean approaches
- Lead adaptive teams and exploit opportunities for project performance and product innovation
- Build a strategic project management toolkit to establish yourself as a thought leader within your organization
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