This webinar organised by the Association of Project Management may be of interest. You will need to register (free) on the APM website before joining.

In many organisations, projects are "co-ordination" rather than "secondment" based - that is, not all of the team members report to the programme manager. This matrix of responsibility means that functional managers are key stakeholders. This cause a number of issues and tensions between the project and functions, and also across multiple projects.

This webinar examines these issues and suggests stakeholder management tools and techniques to deal with them including:

• Building your stakeholder map.
• Creating a support v authority matrix.
• Effective stakeholder communication, understanding you audience.
• Prioritising your requests.
• Stakeholder persuasion techniques, bulding stakeholder support.
• Dealing with difficulties senior stakeholder rivalry, multi-supplier politics, etc.
• We will illustrate the seminar with examples taken from projects and programmes we have worked on.

Jake Holloway of Xceed Group is an experienced programme manager, author and consultant in the areas of IT, digital and marketing. He has manageed and sponsored hundreds of projects and portfolios and was responsible for designing and implementing project management systems and methods for customers while at Metier, the software house that developed Artemis. Jake's interest is in the difference between the reality of how people behave at work and how it is described in management theory. He has recently published a book about stakeholder management, "A practical guide to dealing with difficult stakeholders".

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