Building Stakeholder Relationships and Using Effective Communication

Developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders is an essential management skill. Stakeholders can have a positive or negative impact on the success of an organisation. The aim of this Course is to equip managers to identify and understand stakeholder’s needs, know the purpose and benefits of building relationships with different stakeholder groups, and the methods of communicating with them to achieve results. This course can be accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and can form part of a programme to help participants achieve the Level 3 Principles of Management and Leadership qualification.

Suitability

For first line managers, aspiring managers, or for anyone new to management, leading teams or supervising.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course participants will:
– Know the purpose of building stakeholder relationships
– Understand different channel and types of communication used to build relationships with stakeholders
– Know how to respond to barriers when communicating with stakeholders
– Know how to use stakeholder communication

Course Content

The purpose of building stakeholder relationships:
– Identifying a range of stakeholder groups relevant to the manager
– How to assess the needs and expectations of stakeholder groups
– The benefits of building relationships with stakeholders

The different channel and types of communication used to build relationships with stakeholders:
– The channels of communication used to build stakeholder relationships
– The types of verbal communication used with stakeholders
– How active listening is used to build stakeholder relationships
– Types of written communication used with stakeholders
– How meetings can be led to develop and build effective stakeholder relationships

How to respond to barriers when communicating with stakeholders:
– What are the barriers to effective communication with stakeholders
– Ways of responding to barriers when communicating with stakeholders

How to use stakeholder communication:
– The importance of stakeholder feedback
– Methods of gathering feedback from stakeholders
– The use of stakeholder feedback

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of our clients would recommend Alpha to a colleague or peer

90%

of a cohort was promoted within 2 years after participating in an Alpha course.

96%

of participants felt more confident in their role, following an Alpha commercial leadership course.

Why study with Alpha?

Innovation and creativity born from experience

We are thought leaders in instructional and learning journey design and holistic solution architects. We have extensive finance and investments experience combined with skills application to deliver performance improving results. We develop immersive learning environments that maximize time to productivity, support talent retention and added value to improving quality of hires.

Knowledge Exchange Evangelists

We are focused on mining the embedded organisational intellectual capital for the benefit of the next generation. We create and curate best in class practice gathered from our experience with the leading financial institutions. We design our programmes with the end in mind – what results are you trying to achieve with this intervention? What metrics will we set ourselves to achieve that?

Generation Proof

Quality and innovation, using current market and industry best practices, have made us a trusted partner in delivering dynamic and motivating training for the financial and capital markets. Our programmes are generation proof and responsive to evolving learner needs and styles. Our solutions use a multi-stakeholder engagement strategy that expands beyond relationships between the learner and learning provider. We create connections with managers, peers and the wider business to drive impactful return on investment..

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