What You Will Learn

• Understand your personal influence style through a self-assessment instrument
  
• Learn the 3 components of a stakeholder analysis process: identification, assessment and strategy development
  
• Assess the influence and power levels of your project stakeholders
• Learn how to use Client Mapping as a diagnostic and strategy tool
• Experience stakeholder strategies through case scenarios of real projects

Class Description

For PM’s looking to advance their career and develop their leadership skills, the ability to win support for their projects becomes increasingly important. Stakeholder Management is the discipline that successful PM’s use to win support from others. Stakeholder Management allows you to use the opinions of the most powerful stakeholders to shape your projects at an early stage. This allows you to anticipate what people’s reaction to your project may be and build into your plan the actions that will win support.

Course Includes:

• 70 page workbook
  
• Interpersonal Influence Inventory self-assessment instrument and explanatory booklet
• Mini case studies, leading edge stakeholder strategies with references and customized templates to use on the job
• In depth class discussion on how to deal with stakeholder management issues

PMBOK Knowledge Areas: Human Resource Management, Communications Management

PDU’s: 7

Return to PM Leadership Classes.

1. Today’s economic landscape demands that professionals have key interpersonal skills required to facilitate brainstorming or data-gathering sessions, run high-profile meetings, and speak to both technical, non-technical and management audiences.

2. Interpersonal style, along with communication, customer-service and relationship-building skills, is critical not only to personal success, but also to the success of a project or organization as a whole. Presenting the right message, in the right medium, at the right time can be a difficult - though necessary - set of skills to acquire.