Leading Rather Than Managing Stakeholder Relationships

Date: Tuesday 6th October 2009

Time: 7pm Light Refreshments, 7.30pm Presentation

Venue: Best Western Donnington Manor Hotel, London Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 2TD.

Presented by: Donnie MacNicol, Team Animation Ltd

A fresh perspective on how to view, influence and obtain maximum support for your project or programme

In difficult times the demand for people with effective leadership skills grows. Leaders who are forward-looking and enlist others in a shared view of the future are increasingly sought to deliver projects and programmes.

Projects are intrinsically complex situations, and people are even more complex. We are subjective creatures, and no plans, methodologies or processes can remove this so we must embrace a new way of working with the subjectivity of project management. To achieve this, project leaders must be expert at developing relationships and influencing stakeholders who may be individuals, groups or communities.

Donnie will introduce concepts, models and approaches for you to take away and use to lead stakeholders more effectively. The presentation will be interactive, provocative and entertaining. Topics covered include:

A Stakeholder Influencing Model Research carried out over 10 years with over 1000 people in 250 organisations including business sponsors, SRO’s and investors A framework to develop project leaders who are capable of managing complex stakeholder relationships. The need to accept that it is not about “them”, the stakeholder, getting “it”, the project, but rather the project management team’s responsibility to better understand stakeholders - their motivations, intentions and perception of success A technique to identify how to assess the value of stakeholders against strategic objectives The need to educate stakeholders What and how you present project information to achieve maximum support

Donnie is a director of Team Animation, and an expert on developing project and programme leadership – at an individual, team and organisational level. He is chair of the APM People SIG and member of the Acumen7 network.

This event has an APM CPD rating of up to two hours