Live workshopLeadership Development training for teams
Improving Project Communications and Stakeholder Management
- Built around your actual work
- Live online, or on-site by request
- Training careers nationwide since 2006
Workshop brief
Improving Project Communications and Stakeholder Management
- Duration
- 2 Days (16 hrs; 4 sessions)
- Tuition
- $695.00per participant; team and private pricing by quote
- Delivery
- Live onlineOn-site, in person, by request
- Included
- Certificate of completionFor every participant
The project did not fail. The stakeholders stopped agreeing.
Projects rarely fail on execution. They fail because someone with influence was not consulted, an expectation was set and never revisited, or two stakeholders were agreeing to different things using the same words. None of that appears in a status report until it is too late to fix cheaply.
This workshop treats stakeholder management as work rather than diplomacy. Participants map the real influence network on their own initiative, which is rarely the org chart, and build a communication approach that matches what each person needs in order to decide. Over two days there is time to practice the hard conversations rather than just discuss them.
Senior leaders and program managers use this on cross-functional or cross-agency initiatives, where nobody has authority over everyone and delivery depends on sustained agreement. HR and learning and development leaders use it where projects keep stalling for reasons that are political rather than technical. This is the stakeholder-focused counterpart to Project Management Fundamentals.
Content, scenarios, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This workshop is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other leadership development workshops.
Why teams book DWC
- Content, datasets, and examples built around your work before delivery
- Live online with a real instructor, or on-site at your location
- Invoicing and purchase order documentation for your organization
What your team gets
This course includes
- Live, instructor led workshop delivered over four 4-hour sessions
- Stakeholder mapping on a real initiative you bring
- Practice with reset conversations, conflicting stakeholders, and reversed decisions
- A stakeholder and communication plan you complete during the workshop
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Course outline
How the workshop runs
Every session is live with a real instructor, and the exercises are built around your team's work.
Day one starts with mapping, on a real initiative participants bring. Who is affected, who has influence, who has a veto they have never used, and who is loud but cannot actually stop anything. Most maps surface at least one person who was never on the list and should have been, and at least one who has been consuming attention out of proportion to their power.
The rest of day one is the message. Participants learn to tailor communication to what a stakeholder needs in order to decide rather than to what the project team finds interesting, build a cadence people will actually read, and write a status update that reports reality rather than protecting the team. They practice saying a project is at risk, in writing, to someone who does not want to hear it.
Day two is the difficult part: expectations that were set optimistically and now have to be reset, two stakeholders who want incompatible things, the executive who reverses a decision at week ten, and the sponsor who has gone quiet. Participants practice each, and build a stakeholder plan for their own initiative that they leave with.
Outcomes
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Map who genuinely has influence, separately from the org chart
- Tell a stakeholder with a veto from one with an opinion
- Tailor communication to what each stakeholder needs in order to decide
- Build a reporting cadence people actually read
- Report that a project is at risk to someone who does not want to hear it
- Reset an expectation that was set optimistically
- Hold alignment when stakeholders want incompatible things
Duration
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this workshop. It is designed for managers, program leads, and senior staff responsible for initiatives that cross teams, departments, or organizations. Teams that need the underlying project structure first can pair it with Project Management Fundamentals.
Format
Online for most groups; on-site delivery by request.
Dates and options
Join a public session or book your teamBook this workshop for your team
Public sessions
Train your team privately
Schedule this workshop for your team, live online or on-site, with content built around your work. Tell us your group size, goals, and target dates.
How team training works
From first call to trained team
- 20,000+Participants trained
- 90%Completion rate
- 1,500+Organizations served
Scope it
A short call about your team, your tools, and what needs to change after the session.
Customize it
Your instructor builds examples, exercises, and datasets around your actual work before delivery.
Deliver it live
Live online for most groups, or on-site at your location, scheduled around your team.
Make it stick
Every participant leaves with reference materials and a certificate of completion.
Pricing
Tuition and ways to buy
$695.00 per participant
Improving Project Communications and Stakeholder Management is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $695 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
Colorado state agencies, higher education institutions, cities, counties, school districts, and certified nonprofits may purchase this course directly through our State of Colorado Price Agreement. Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.
- Per participant
Enroll a few employees at the per-participant rate.
- Private team session
Your group only, built around your data, tools, and schedule.
- Invoice your organization
DWC invoices your company directly and provides purchase order documentation.
- Multi-workshop programs
Combine workshops into a series for a department or a cohort of new managers.
Leadership Development training
Leadership training for managers and emerging leaders
Most managers were promoted for being good at the work, not for leading people who do it. DWC leadership training gives new and experienced managers practical tools for motivating and managing performance, leading change, improving processes, and developing the next generation of leaders through talent management and succession planning.
Workshops are built around your organization's real situations before delivery, and they combine well into a leadership development series for a cohort of new managers.
Can you customize this workshop for our team?
Yes. Content, datasets, and examples are built around your actual work before delivery, so participants practice on the files, tools, and situations they deal with every day.
Is the training online or on-site?
Most groups train live online with a real instructor. On-site, in-person delivery is available by request.
Is there a minimum group size?
Most workshops booked for a team have a three participant minimum, and the Tuition section on each workshop page lists its exact terms. One-on-one sessions and smaller groups are priced case by case, and larger groups are quoted based on group size, schedule, and delivery format.
Is this training for new managers or experienced leaders?
Both. Workshops range from managerial leadership for new supervisors to leading change, talent management, and succession planning for experienced leaders.
Can leadership workshops be combined into a program?
Yes. Many organizations combine several workshops into a leadership development series for a cohort of managers, scheduled around their work.
Do participants receive a certificate?
Yes. Every participant receives a certificate of completion, along with digital learning materials and take-home reference guides.
Can we pay by invoice or purchase order?
Yes. DWC invoices your organization directly and provides purchase order documentation.
Can individual employees join a public session?
When a workshop has public dates, they appear in the Dates section of this page with a registration button. If none are listed, request a quote and we will share your options.
Bring this workshop to your team
Tell us about your group and your goals. A training advisor follows up within one business day with options and pricing.