Training Stakeholder Management (English)

When do you deliver the greatest added value as a professional? Often, the difference between a high-impact project and a less impactful one lies in what key stakeholders did or didn’t do. Effective stakeholder management helps you make conscious choices upfront, increasing your chances of success. In many roles, it’s essential to engage stakeholders – clients, internal colleagues, external partners, project members – especially when driving innovation or change. But how do they view these changes?

This training equips you with a concrete stakeholder action plan. You’ll learn which influencing styles to use and how to network effectively, so you understand the dynamics within and beyond your organization.

Your results

• You’ll identify your stakeholders and understand what attention they require
• You’ll gain clarity using a force field analysis
• You’ll learn to work with a communication matrix
• You’ll understand different influencing styles and when to apply them
• You’ll recognize your strengths and areas for improvement

Who is it for?

This training is suitable for professionals who work with internal and external stakeholders, such as in project management, procurement, organizational change, product development, or Agile environments. Ideal roles include (senior) specialists, (project) managers, and (policy) advisors.

High Impact Performance

This training follows the High Impact Performance approach. Under the guidance of an experienced trainer and a professional training actor, you’ll work on your personal learning goals. The actor creates realistic scenarios using proven theatre techniques, challenging you to discover and apply more effective behavior. This method ensures lasting behavioral change and helps you take a significant step in your personal development.

Approach

Before the training, you’ll define your learning goals and choose a project or real-life situation to develop a stakeholder action plan for. During the training, you’ll actively work on this case. You’ll apply a force field analysis to map your stakeholders and use a stakeholder communication matrix to determine the right actions and priorities.

You’ll gain insight into various influencing styles and practice applying them in your own context. Topics include:

• How to get to know your stakeholders
• How to deal with resistance
• How to turn a critic into an ambassador

Related training programs

• Training Effective Communication Skills (English)
• Booster Training Influencing Skills (English)

Classroom or Virtual Classroom

You can follow this program in a classroom setting at a location of your choice. Because you learn a lot from each other within a group, we offer you an alternative location if there are insufficient registrations for your preferred location. Our lesson locations are spread throughout the Netherlands. Do you prefer lessons at fixed times, with a teacher and digitally? Then the virtual classroom offers the solution. For more information about our training variants, see the Training Variants page on our website.