Course Outline
- 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 negotiation process
- Negotiation strategies
- Negotiation best practices