PT209 – ​Managing and Influencing Stakeholders

PT209 - Managing and Influencing Stakeholders
Practitioner Level
Course duration:  3 Days (Classroom) or 8 weeks by Supported Distance Learning
Recommended prior knowledge: FD108 Introduction to stakeholder communications; FD104 introduction to change management'

Who is it for?

This course is designed for those who are practising in quality and aspire towards middle management.

Indicative course content

Stakeholder analysis and management:

• 4-box Power vs Influence
  Strategies for managing and communicating with stakeholders
• Construction and use of the stakeholder matrix (Simple 4-box with Power vs Interest) and the process to identify, prioritise and develop plans for stakeholder engagement.

Influencing styles:

• Use and application of generic influencing styles
• Rationalising
• Asserting
• Negotiating
• Inspiring
• Bridging
• Influencing people
• Influencing situations
• Transactional analysis:
• Ego states
• Types of transactions
• Behavioural diagnosis

Personal contracting:

• Review role of the consultant and description of how they work with organisations, leaders and others including contracting with stakeholders
• Purpose
• Expectations
• Behaviour

Engaging others and building trust and rapport:

• Questioning techniques: open/closed; reflecting; mirroring; clarifying
• Listening skills
• Empathy
• Body language

The consulting process:

• contract; evaluate data; develop strategy; develop plan; implement plan; review.
• Increasing readiness to change (dealing with resistance):
• Readiness to change assessment:
• Gleicher Formula, meaning of the terms and application.
• Scott & Jaffe change curve: descriptions of the four stages.
• Kotter & Schlesinger’s six methods: descriptions of methods and typical actions to increase readiness to change.
• Scenario-based learning.

This course includes a one-hour multiple choice examination.