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The Crucial Role of Stakeholders in Business and the Value of APMG Stakeholder Engagement Certification

In today’s dynamic business landscape, organizations are increasingly recognizing the vital role of stakeholders in shaping their success. Engaging stakeholders effectively is no longer just an option but a strategic necessity. This article explores the importance of stakeholders in business and highlights the value of acquiring the APMG Stakeholder Engagement certification for professionals seeking to excel in this domain. Continue reading “The Crucial Role of Stakeholders in Business and the Value of APMG Stakeholder Engagement Certification”

APMG Stakeholder Engagement Course : Guide to Stakeholder Management

APMG Stakeholder Engagement Course

One of the key elements of an organisation is its stakeholders. But stakeholder management is not easy. We should be engaging stakeholders, not managing them. When implementing a change in an organisation, irrespective of its scale, it will impact several stakeholders. So a change manager or other members of the management must have the prerequisite skillset to manage changes and the affected stakeholders.

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5 Benefits of Stakeholder Engagement

Business is about managing relationships, both bad and good. Successful businesses always have to be aware of who will hold the organisation back and who will help them move forward. For making short-term decisions and achieving long-term goals, it is crucial that organisations create stakeholder maps for each operational and change activity. This will help to identify supportive stakeholders (as well as resisting ones) and will be effective in taking the company to the next level.

If you are a Project Management Professional or PRINCE2 Project Manager, you would have come across stakeholder engagement and management during your course. It is the duty of a project manager to identify and assess stakeholders, and you must come up with plans and ways to engage stakeholders in a project. There are times when you might be faced with “hostile” stakeholders and that is when the knowledge acquired from the stakeholder management training is put into good use.

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How to deal with hostile and difficult stakeholders?

It is a well-known fact that one of the most crucial aspects of project management is stakeholder management. The success or failure of a project is massively dependent on its stakeholders. If there is one thing that project managers fear, it is resistance. Keeping stakeholders satisfied is a challenge in itself and this challenge becomes monumental if stakeholders prove to be difficult or hostile.

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Stakeholder engagement in projects- things you need to know

Management of stakeholders is one of the major responsibilities of a project manager. In a project, there are several individuals involved and since the project manager is in the centre and the integrator of the project, he/she is expected to satisfy the stakeholders within the project’s boundaries. This is why the analysis and management of stakeholders are crucial to the success of any project. If you are a project manager and need some help with stakeholder management, you can sign up for Training Creatively’s stakeholder engagement training course in London.

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