Stakeholder Management Achieving Consensus For Successful Project Execution
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Stakeholder Management Achieving Consensus For Successful Project Execution Course
Introduction:
The overall aim of this course is to assist participants in identifying project stakeholders and managing their expectations. Participants will learn how to develop stakeholder management plans, stakeholder registers, and strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution. The course also aims at sharpening participants’ leadership, negotiation, communication, and conflict management skills to foster the appropriate stakeholder engagement in project decisions and activities.
Course Objectives:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Categorize project stakeholders and build the stakeholder management plan
- Analyze the interest and influence of project stakeholders
- Arrange the stakeholder communication channels and manage stakeholder conflicts
- Choose the appropriate leadership style for each project stakeholder
- Apply win-win negotiation techniques with project stakeholders
Who Should Attend?
- Project managers
- Members of project offices
- Project sponsors
- Functional managers
- Senior management and individuals are interested in project stakeholder management.
- Managing projects
- Planning
- Leading
- Communicating
- Conflict resolving
- Negotiating
Course Outlines:
Stakeholder Management Overview
- Defining project stakeholders
- APM Definition
- PMI Definition
- A practical definition of project stakeholders
- Stakeholders management skills set
- Technical skills
- Business insights
- People skills
Categorizing and Prioritizing Project Stakeholders
- Dimensions of stakeholders categorization
- Power and interest matrix
- Power and influence matrix
- Power and knowledge matrix
- Stakeholders engagement assessment matrix
- Developing stakeholder register
- Stakeholder management plan
- Stakeholder groups classification
Managing Project Stakeholder Communications
- Stakeholder communication plan
- Stakeholder communication channels
- Holistic approach to communication
- Managing stakeholders in a virtual world
- Managing difficult stakeholders
- Managing project stakeholders conflicts
- Conflict management styles
- Factors affecting conflict modes
Leading project Stakeholders
- Project managers as leaders
- Disciplines of leading project stakeholders
- Leadership time continuum
- Leadership capability continuum
- The leadership matrix
- The leadership matrix actions
- Choosing the right leadership style for stakeholders
- Situational leadership model
Negotiating with Project Stakeholders
- Types of negotiations
- Negotiation mindsets
- Critical concepts of win-win negotiation
- Characteristics of good negotiators
- Negotiations and building coalitions
- Stages of the negotiation process
- Negotiation strategies
- Negotiation best practices
