Luke Angel
№ 31 · Self-paced — pre-recorded

Project Management Fundamentals: Stakeholder Management.

Stakeholder management is the unglamorous skill that decides whether your project ships. Identification, mapping, engagement, and interpersonal patterns.

Syllabus
1
Stakeholder Lifecycle Management
How stakeholders enter, evolve, and exit a project — and the three lifecycle stages most PMs miss.
2
Identification Strategy
Finding every stakeholder before kickoff — including the silent influencers who can sink you in month three.
3
Stakeholder Analysis
Power, interest, urgency, and legitimacy — the four axes that actually predict stakeholder behavior.
4
Power & Interest Mapping
The 2×2 every PM should know — and the misuses that turn it into a useless ritual.
5
Keep Your Friends Close, Your Enemies Closer
Engagement patterns for skeptical and hostile stakeholders that don't require being a politician.
6
Stakeholder Prominence & Salience
Mitchell-Agle-Wood salience model — when each axis matters, and what to do about it.
7
Stakeholder Engagement Strategies
Communication cadence, message tailoring, and the engagement plan you actually maintain.
8
Management & Interpersonal Skills
Active listening, influence without authority, and the soft skills that compound across projects.
9
KPIs for Stakeholder Health
Measuring stakeholder satisfaction, engagement, and risk — without turning humans into a dashboard.

Stakeholder management is the unglamorous skill that decides whether your project ships or stalls. It's also the one nobody teaches well — most PM training treats it as a soft skill to be mentioned and moved past, when in reality it's the single largest predictor of project outcomes outside the team itself.

This course teaches the full discipline: identify everyone (including the silent influencers), map them on the axes that actually matter, build engagement strategies for each archetype, and run the interpersonal patterns that turn skeptics into supporters without playing political games.

What you'll be able to do after

  • Identify every project stakeholder — including the three or four that nobody listed in the kickoff doc
  • Map power and interest in 20 minutes flat and use the result to drive your communication plan
  • Engage a hostile executive sponsor without escalating to a status call
  • Build a stakeholder dashboard your project sponsor actually opens
  • Recover from the most common stakeholder management failure: discovering the wrong person had the wrong expectation in month four

Who this is for

  • PMs and Program Managers running cross-functional projects with 5+ stakeholders
  • Tech leads and engineering managers taking on more delivery responsibility
  • PMP candidates — this course qualifies for PDUs
  • Anyone leading a project where the politics started getting interesting and you'd rather have a system than wing it

Self-paced, pre-recorded, open enrollment. PMI Registered Education Provider.