Project Management: Uncover the Key to Stakeholder Success
Project Management: Uncover the Key to Stakeholder Success
Do you want to achieve project success through positive working with stakeholders?
In this session we will explore a key area in project management: ensuring successful engagement and outcome with stakeholders.
Your facilitator, Jean, will share stories of successful and challenging projects and great ideas from Open University teaching. We start with identifying and understanding the stakeholders who can influence our projects and are impacted by them. We then move onto planning stakeholder management activities to deliver projects successfully together.
Project Management: uncover the key to stakeholder success
Story: Sharing a project management case study situation with stakeholders
- Interaction : Who are your Stakeholders?
- Concepts : Stakeholder identification and classification techniques
- Interaction : Where do your stakeholders fit in? Mapping participant’s stakeholders to stakeholder identification and classification tools
- Concepts : Planning stakeholder management activities
- Interaction : Which activities would you find useful?
- Final summary of concepts, techniques, story and interaction.
Questions and answers
- Time to explore OU offer on project management and answer questions about the project management ideas and techniques shared.
Learning Outcomes
- Understanding of OU offer on project management
- Experience of exploring participant projects and stakeholders and ways to ensure success
- Ability to apply stakeholder management tools and techniques.
- You can book places for yourself and/or colleagues by clicking the button below.
- This event will take place on Zoom.
- Closed Captions can be enabled by participants.
- Please email matthew@wheel.ie if you have any special requirements.
Meet Your Presenter
Jean Gamester is the lead educator on the Open University project management microcredential and teaches leadership, creativity and innovation. Jean also supervises MBA and HRM Masters students on their final dissertations and is a student experience manager, supporting students and tutors to achieve their goals.
Jean's practice background is in leading transformation programmes and interim management across a variety of sectors. Jean is also a volunteer leader for an international not-for-profit, which has included serving on the international board. Her doctoral research is in the area of practitioner development.
Jean was a student in the Open University before beginning teaching with them in 2019, starting with one module, but over time it became her main role. Jean continues to teach with Open University due to their social purpose of being available for everyone and enjoys delivering tutorials, discovering new things and gets greate satisfcations in seeing people grow.
