Overview:
This 90-minute webinar will walk you through the stakeholder analysis and the strategies that must be employed to manage your stakeholders effectively.
During this webinar, we will examine in detail each step and critical aspect of the process to include:
- Determining who your stakeholders are. The process of brainstorming with your team will enable all possible stakeholders for your project to ensure a pivotal stakeholder is not missed at the early start of your project.
- Grouping and prioritizing these stakeholders. After brainstorming you will need to determine which people and teams will indeed be stakeholders and categorizing them in terms of their influence, interest, and levels of participation.
- Figuring out how to communicate with and achieve buy-in from each stakeholder you have identified.
- Once stakeholders have been categorized, it’s time to think strategically about how best to earn the ongoing support of each of these stakeholder types.
After this process has been completed, the communications plan can be developed and executed.
Why you should Attend:
Stakeholders are without question, the most important people in the project organization. They define your success, they provide the resources you need to get the work done, they open doors and remove barriers. The short of it, is that if you do not identify and manage the expectations of your stakeholders when you take on a project as its manager…..YOU WILL FAIL! It is as simple as that!
You can read about the importance of stakeholders in a book for sure, and you should, but nothing replaces hearing about the importance of a stakeholder analysis from someone with thirty years of experience managing high-risk projects.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- How to identify, assign, and communicate project roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.
- Synthesize in a balanced manner the individual, organizational, and systemic issues in conflicting situations and negotiations.
- Utilize the stakeholder analysis tool to make stakeholder determinations/categorizations.
- Develop strategies to identify, address, and manage the diverse expectations of the project team and other stakeholder groups.
- Evaluate attributes that shape decisions on tailoring stakeholder management approaches.
- Demonstrate, select, and adapt communications styles critical to project environments and progress.
Speakers
Charles H. Paul is the President of C. H. Paul Consulting, Inc. - a regulatory, manufacturing, training, and technical documentation consulting firm - celebrating its twentieth year in business in 2017. He has been a regulatory and management consultant and an Instructional Technologist for 30 years and has published numerous white papers on various regulatory and training subjects. The firm works with both domestic and international clients designing solutions for complex training and documentation issues.
Who Should Attend
- Any member of a cross functional project team that has the potential opportunity to lead that project
- Engineers
- Marketing Associates
- Product Managers
- Program Managers
- Contract Managers
- Project Managers
- Research & Development Associates, Managers, and Directors
- Design Engineers
- Manufacturing Managers
