UNSW Canberra

Stakeholder Management

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Duration

1 day 

Delivery mode

Hybrid – In-Person or Online

Location

Canberra

Standard price

$1,045.00

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Overview

Effective stakeholder management is critical to building coalitions, achieving outcomes and ensuring the success of your work. Genuine stakeholder involvement will provide expertise, reduce risks, ensure project success (increase probability), get project acceptance and increase trust making.

This stakeholder management course delivers the principles of effective stakeholder management in everyday working situations. We will consider a wide range of stakeholders and examine stakeholders from a variety of perspectives, including power and interest dimensions, and in so doing, develop techniques for effective engagement with your stakeholders.

Course content

  • The different types of stakeholders in a problem situation.
  • Strategies to manage different stakeholder types.
  • Practical constraints of time and resources.
  • Communication strategies to engage stakeholders.
  • Practice methods and tools to develop your stakeholder management plan.

Learning outcomes

Skills/competencies/knowledge that would be gained through this course:
  • Recognize and classify the different types of stakeholders in your problem situation
  • Identify strategies to manage different stakeholder types
  • Consider the practical constraints of time and resources
  • Develop communication strategies to engage stakeholders
  • Practice methods and tools to develop your stakeholder management plan

 

No prior knowledge is assumed.

Who should attend

The stakeholder management course is for any member or leader in Defence, Industry and Government groups. The content in this course can be applied to a range of problem-solving situations from team management, and public services decisions to the defence and industry sectors.

Facilitator

Travis Hunt 

Industry Specialist, Capability Systems Centre, UNSW Canberra

Travis  Hunt is a Defence Industry Specialist within the UNSW Capability Systems Centre.  He holds an undergraduate degree in Aeronautical Engineering and a Master of System Engineering from UNSW.  He is a Chartered Professional Engineer with Engineers Australia and was awarded Certified Practicing Project Director (CPPD) status by the Australian Institute of Project Management.  Travis’ professional career has spanned engineering and project management roles across Defence and into defence industry. Projects have included organisation transformation, capability delivery and development of advanced systems.

As an Industry Specialist, his research and education interests include system engineering, mission engineering and project delivery. Travis is particularly passionate about how contemporary and emerging system engineering and modelling practices can enhance communication and collaboration within multi-disciplined project teams.   

Cancellation policy

Courses will be held subject to sufficient registrations. UNSW Canberra reserves the right to cancel a course up to five working days prior to commencement of the course. If a course is cancelled, you will have the opportunity to transfer your registration or be issued a full refund. If registrant cancels within 10 days of course commencement, a 50% registration fee will apply. UNSW Canberra is a registered ACT provider under ESOS Act 2000-CRICOS provider Code 00098G.