Topic 7: Stakeholder Engagement

No matter what industry you find yourself in, great stakeholder engagement is one of the most important skills– if not, the most important skill – you need to master to be successful in your career.

What is Stakeholder Engagement?

Stakeholder engagement involves so much more than just getting people to like you. It is about how you manage relationships with people who affect or are affected by your work and bring them into alignment with your goals.

Benefits of Stakeholder Engagement

There are several benefits you can reap through great stakeholder engagement including; reputation building, increased productivity, better outcomes and even access to resources like people, time or money for your project!

What you will learn in this module

This module contains everything you need to know in order to identify and prioritise your stakeholders, engage effectively as a stakeholder, manage difficult stakeholders and create a stakeholder engagement plan.

No matter what industry you find yourself in, great stakeholder engagement is one of the most important skills– if not, the most important skill – you need to master to be successful in your career.

What is Stakeholder Engagement?

Stakeholder engagement involves so much more than just getting people to like you. It is about how you manage relationships with people who affect or are affected by your work and bring them into alignment with your goals.

Benefits of Stakeholder Engagement

There are several benefits you can reap through great stakeholder engagement including; reputation building, increased productivity, better outcomes and even access to resources like people, time or money for your project!

What you will learn in this module

This module contains everything you need to know in order to identify and prioritise your stakeholders, engage effectively as a stakeholder, manage difficult stakeholders and create a stakeholder engagement plan.

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age

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    Since its initial publication, How to Win Friends and Influence People has sold a total of 15 million copies. The book continues to sell briskly today, but Carnegie never anticipated the ways in which the digital age would provide new tools and challenges for winning friends and influencing people. The advent of social networking sites, the dominance of email, and the ways in which the Internet has supplanted face-to-face interactions have made Carnegie's precepts all the more immediate and vital.

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People

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    This short video highlights 4 key steps from Dale Carnegie's book - 'How to Win Friends & Influence People'

    Arouse an eager want
    Become genuinely interested
    Admit your wrong & do it empathically
    Always talk about your own mistakes first

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