Introduction

Modern organisations operate within increasingly complex stakeholder ecosystems involving customers, suppliers, regulators, partners, employees, and investors. As reporting lines become less direct and work increasingly spans functions, projects, and organisational boundaries, authority alone is rarely sufficient to achieve results. Success now depends on the ability to understand stakeholder priorities, manage expectations, and influence outcomes through credibility and structured engagement.

The Advanced Stakeholder Management training course equips participants with a disciplined, practical approach to managing high-priority stakeholders. It focuses on analysing stakeholder environments, separating critical stakeholders from the wider group, building strong professional relationships, and responding effectively to pressure and disagreement. The emphasis is on practical judgement, reflective learning, and repeatable engagement practices that improve outcomes while reducing conflict and inefficiency.

Key focus areas include:

Key Learning Outcomes

At the end of this Advanced Stakeholder Management training course, participants will be able to:

Training Methodology

This Advanced Stakeholder Management training course combines focused instruction with case analysis, simulations, role-play, and facilitated discussion. Participants practise real stakeholder scenarios, receive structured feedback, and apply reflective techniques to strengthen judgement and engagement effectiveness in real organisational contexts.

Advanced Stakeholder Management

Who Should Attend?

This Advanced Stakeholder Management training course is ideal for:

  • Managers leading cross-functional or project-based work
  • Professionals responsible for stakeholder engagement and coordination
  • Team leaders operating without direct authority
  • Project and programme managers
  • Professionals working in high-scrutiny or high-pressure environments
  • Leaders seeking to strengthen influence and relationship management

Course Outline

Day 1

First Principles of Managing Stakeholders

  • Self-assessment of current skill levels and identification of areas for development
  • The stakeholder engagement lifecycle, process, and key stages
  • The potential outcomes from poorly conducted stakeholder engagement
  • Negative factors in stakeholder engagements and how to avoid them
  • Critical success factors in successful stakeholder engagements
Day 2

Developing an Appropriate Personal Brand and Projecting a Strong Image

  • What is a personal brand and what does appropriate mean?
  • The elements of a successful personal brand – education, experience, personality, authenticity, values, performance, providing value, consistency
  • Developing your value proposition and ‘elevator pitch’
  • How to create presentations and reports that impress stakeholders
  • Gaining access to senior stakeholders
Day 3

Assessing the High Priority Stakeholders

  • Circles of Influence, differing frameworks and their use
  • A range of frameworks for assessing stakeholder priority and their pros and cons
  • Stakeholders’ self-image, needs, concerns and behaviors
  • Social style – quickly analyze stakeholder behavior and decide how to respond for a positive outcome – a deep dive into the technique
  • Influencing without power, techniques, and tips for making a high impact
Day 4

Engaging and Managing Your Stakeholders

  • Developing a stakeholder communications strategy
  • Identifying specific concerns and tailoring the messages accordingly
  • Creating a tailored stakeholder communications and engagement plan
  • Setting up and managing stakeholder meetings
  • Managing disagreements and moving to a productive outcome
Day 5

Negotiating Successful Outcomes

  • The processes of negotiation
  • Developing your negating position
  • Negotiating using a principled approach
  • Dealing with challenges
  • Driving negotiations to mutually successful outcomes

International Standards & Professional Alignment

Our training courses are aligned with internationally recognised professional standards and frameworks across leadership, strategy, finance, governance, risk, compliance, and audit. By integrating globally trusted models, we ensure learners develop practical, relevant, and industry-recognised capabilities.

Our trainings draw on leading international standards and professional frameworks, including ISO, ISACA, COSO, OECD, IIA, FATF, Basel, IFRS/ISSB, GRI, NIST, CPD, ILM and the OECD AI Principles. This alignment ensures consistency with global best practices across financial management, risk oversight, digital governance, sustainability, and strategic decision-making..

Designed in alignment with globally recognised professional bodies, our courses support continuous professional development, strengthen organisational capability, and provide clear pathways toward professional certifications valued worldwide.

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FAQs

This training course focuses on strengthening practical stakeholder analysis, prioritisation, and engagement to improve outcomes in complex working environments. 

Yes, the training course is highly relevant for professionals working in projects, programmes, and matrix organisations. 

Yes, the training course provides structured approaches to managing disagreement and moving discussions toward productive outcomes. 

Yes, the training course develops techniques for influencing stakeholders through credibility, structure, and communication rather than formal power. 

Yes, the training course applies to a wide range of sectors where stakeholder complexity and competing interests are present. 

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