Day 1 of the Accelerated Leadership course integrates all the processes that are required when there is a need to manage stakeholders effectively and influence without authority. You will learn proven skills and techniques to obtain what you require, probe, and discover the needs, wants, and drivers of stakeholders (internal and external), and reach outcomes that are beneficial to all. You will also learn specific techniques to help you in raising your influence and discover new power bases you may not have leveraged before. The skills taught in this module are especially beneficial if you work on projects in a matrix environment.

• Basic principles of negotiation, including principled negotiation

• How important are relationships in managing stakeholders

• Questioning techniques to solicit information and learn about others

• Strategies for influencing without authority and raising your influence

• How to obtain commitment and buy-in from your stakeholders

• How to develop Stakeholder maps and analyze the results

• How to customize and adapt communications for different audiences & teams

• How to influence decision making and prioritization

2) Organizational Change and Readiness

The ability to understand and manage change is an essential skill for project and program managers. We teach you how to take into account organizational change management needs in your activities to ensure acceptance. The importance of acquiring the knowledge and tools for changing organizations successfully cannot be overemphasized. This module covers specific concepts, theories and tools that can assist those entrusted with the task of leading organizational change. Among other topics, the module will focus on the politics of change, successfully leading change efforts, downsizing, restructuring and reengineering, and organizational adaptation.

• Understand change and resistance from an individual and organizational level

• Recognize the signs and symptoms of resistance

• Improved ability to manage specific change projects and programs

• The drivers of change and the models of organizational change

• The ability to apply change leadership tools, theories, and models

• Identify the issues of power, politics, fear and loss

• Learn different techniques and interventions

• Learn practical skills and hands-on tools for planning large-scale change

• A change leadership action plan

• The ADKAR concept of the stages of change

Facilitator: Rita Trudeau