Managing Stakeholder Expectations

A practical programme in stakeholder expectation management for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.

📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

Most failures in stakeholder expectation management trace back to a conversation someone avoided having. Teams read what their leaders tolerate on this area of organisational leadership far more accurately than what their leaders announce. Participants finish able to explain this aspect of organisational leadership to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. The professional literature on stakeholder expectation management converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. Improvement in this area of organisational leadership stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. The programme is built to be used, and every section of this part of organisational leadership it covers ends in something applicable. The programme suits teams tackling stakeholder expectation management together as readily as individuals attending alone. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in the organisational leadership capability rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. The programme ends where implementation begins, with the organisational leadership discipline broken into steps someone can start on Monday.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Build a concise leadership plan for stakeholder expectation management that colleagues can follow without further explanation.

02

Set a realistic target state for stakeholder expectation management and a defensible route to it.

03

Communicate the purpose of stakeholder expectation management to those who have to comply with it.

04

Make decisions on stakeholder expectation management at the right speed for the risk involved.

05

Read the informal dynamics that determine whether stakeholder expectation management actually moves.

06

Recognise when stakeholder expectation management needs a different leadership style than the one that got you here.

07

Manage the emotional load stakeholder expectation management places on you and on the team.

Who Should Attend

01

Founders and owner-managers formalising stakeholder expectation management as the organisation grows.

02

Team leaders responsible for daily delivery of stakeholder expectation management.

03

Board members and non-executives overseeing stakeholder expectation management.

04

Public sector managers applying stakeholder expectation management within institutional constraints.

05

Consultants and advisers supporting clients on stakeholder expectation management.

06

Members of committees that take decisions affecting stakeholder expectation management.

Course Modules

01

Stakeholder expectation management: influence across functions you do not control

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The paperwork for stakeholder expectation management that is actually needed

  • Map the handovers in stakeholder expectation management between functions and secure them.
  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in stakeholder expectation management.
  • Estimate the resource stakeholder expectation management requires to run as designed.
  • Rank the weaknesses in stakeholder expectation management by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.

Session 2Who answers for stakeholder expectation management, and to whom

  • Recognise publicly one person whose work on stakeholder expectation management went unnoticed.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to stakeholder expectation management will be introduced.
  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in stakeholder expectation management.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether stakeholder expectation management is improving.
02

Stakeholder expectation management: building the bench and letting go

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Saying the thing about stakeholder expectation management that nobody wants to say

  • Name the person accountable for each part of stakeholder expectation management, not the committee.
  • Establish the boundary of stakeholder expectation management and record what sits outside it.
  • Decide the point at which you would escalate stakeholder expectation management.
  • Define acceptance criteria for stakeholder expectation management in advance.

Session 2The meeting that finally unblocks stakeholder expectation management

  • Confirm that the people affected by stakeholder expectation management heard it from you first.
  • Identify the conversation about stakeholder expectation management you have been postponing, and schedule it.
  • Test whether the team can explain stakeholder expectation management in their own words.
  • Set the decision rights on stakeholder expectation management: who decides, who is consulted, who is told.
03

Stakeholder expectation management: delegation, trust and accountability

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Recovering after a visible mistake on stakeholder expectation management

  • Collect evidence on the present handling of stakeholder expectation management before proposing changes.
  • Prepare how you will respond when stakeholder expectation management is challenged publicly.
  • State the outcome expected from stakeholder expectation management in a single sentence anyone can repeat.
  • Give one piece of specific feedback on stakeholder expectation management within the week.

Session 2Showing that stakeholder expectation management changed something measurable

  • Test the procedure for stakeholder expectation management against a realistic scenario.
  • Identify your successor for stakeholder expectation management and the gap they need to close.
  • Agree the standard on stakeholder expectation management and confirm it applies to everyone.
  • Check that records of stakeholder expectation management answer the questions likely to be asked.
04

Stakeholder expectation management: resilience and the personal cost of leading

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What has to be agreed before work on stakeholder expectation management starts

  • Assess the workload stakeholder expectation management adds and what you will remove to make room.
  • Set the review point at which stakeholder expectation management will be reconsidered.
  • Arrange the handover of stakeholder expectation management so capability survives staff changes.
  • Benchmark the organisation's stakeholder expectation management against comparable operations.

Session 2Reading the room before proposing stakeholder expectation management

  • Set out the decisions in stakeholder expectation management that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Check whether incentives anywhere reward behaviour that undermines stakeholder expectation management.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains stakeholder expectation management to those affected.
  • Write down the reasoning behind your position on stakeholder expectation management.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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