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Influencing Strategy and Stakeholder Management

 

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About the Course

Recommended for:

The Influencing Strategy and Stakeholder Management course is perfect if you’re an HR practitioner wishing to create lasting value and build support for your organisation’s future.

Course overview:


How do you involve people who add value to join you in your organisational goals and incentives? Creating successful partnerships is paramount to shaping your company’s key agendas. This one-day course will show you how to do just that.

Course benefits:


You’ll gain a wealth of specialist knowledge, skills, and a six-step influencing ‘roadmap’, to enable you to identify your key stakeholders, plan different influencing strategies and know when to apply them. You’ll come away knowing how to strategically plan to influence and manage stakeholders through interactive group work and case studies. Furthermore, you’ll be better prepared, with the practical theory behind you, to present your business case with impact.

Additional information:

In-house training

The Influencing Strategy and Stakeholder Management course can also be provided in-house, which is a cost-effective approach if you have a number of people who require training. You choose where and when you want our trainers to deliver. We will also tailor the Influencing Strategy and Stakeholder Management course content to suit your precise organisation needs.

To speak to an advisor about your particular requirements call our In-house team on +44 (0)20 8612 6202.


Dates and Prices

Course title: Influencing Strategy and Stakeholder Management
Duration: 1 day (Residential / Non-residential)
Dates and prices:
11 September 2012, Londonavailability: Green light
Non-member price: £610 + VAT
CIPD member price: £555 + VAT (find out about CIPD membership)
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If you book onto Creating an Integrated HR Strategy and HR as a Catalyst for Change at the same time as Influencing Strategy and Stakeholder Management, you will save 10% off the combined price:

  • CIPD members: £2,002.50 + VAT
  • Non members: £2,205.00 + VAT

In-house training

Influencing Strategy and Stakeholder Management can also be provided in-house. This is a cost-effective approach if you have a number of people who require training. You choose where and when you want our trainers to deliver. We will also tailor the course content to suit your precise organisation needs.

To speak to an advisor about your particular requirements call our In-house team on +44 (0)20 8612 6202.

Course content

Programme

 

The difference between levels of influence and the components of successful influencing 
 

The influencing model:

 

  • Stage 1: What are you trying to achieve? – strategy and vision
    definition
  • Stage 2: Where are you currently? – current reality and gap
    analysis between current reality and ideal future state
  • Stage 3: Who are your stakeholders? – mapping of stakeholders
  • Stage 4: Understanding different people – individual differences
    and influencing
  • Stage 5: Different strategies – different influencing strategies
    and their usage
  • Stage 6: Behaviours to make the strategies work – applying
    requisite leadership skills for influencing and managing
    stakeholders, including board level

Presenting your business case

 

Action planning

 

Course tutors

Mr Dave Millner