Session 3: Stakeholder Engagement & Influencing Without Authority

Date: June 5, 2020
Time: 12-1pm
Location: Zoom link provided in calendar invite; email advisoryservices@bu.edu for help

Description: This session will focus on the practical aspects of managing stakeholders, building relationships, communicating, and influencing.

It will cover the following areas:

• Identifying and understanding stakeholder needs
• Applying strategies to gain cooperation and support
• Leading change through relationships
• Enhancing trust and cooperation
• Dealing with difficult stakeholders

Optional Pre-Reading:
7 Tips to Transform Difficult Stakeholders into Project Partners
How to Develop a Stakeholder Engagement Plan
Influence Without Authority

Printouts to hang in work spaces:
Stakeholder Management

Worksheets:
The Martin Exercise

Session Slides:
Stakeholder Management

Recorded Session:
Session 3 Recording