Stakeholder Management: Winning Stakeholder Support and Achieving Your Goals

In this on-demand course, you will learn why stakeholder management is vital to your business success, how to identify and assess stakeholders' expectations, and how best to communicate a common understanding of shared goals and objectives. As individuals advance into more senior roles, they take on additional responsibilities and larger projects. This means they gain the opportunity to influence more people who are impacted by their work. Those they are trying to influence are known as stakeholders, and while some may want to help you, others may undermine you. The challenge is winning stakeholder support and achieving your goals.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it:

In this course, the learner will be able to:

• Understand who stakeholders are and explain their importance.
• Identify the key stakeholders in a project.
• Understand how to prioritize your stakeholders’ influence.
• Understand the basics of stakeholder engagement, and how you can win support for your project.
• Learn what tools you can use for managing stakeholder engagement.

This course is for you because:

• You're working with multiple people and want to influence them positively.
• You're a manager across verticals who needs to maintain good rapport and strong relationships.
• You're a leader who interacts with and manages teams, customers, vendors, cross-functional teams, etc.
• You collaborate with many people.

Prerequisites

• You have experience collaborating with people in a professional environment