PM Skills: Interaction and Engagement
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Course Description:
Type: self-paced, online Access Time: 365 days from enrollment
Description:
As a project leader, your project's stakeholders are some of your greatest assets. However, those assets are only valuable if you collaborate with and involve them on a regular basis. Customers, colleagues, team members, management, the community at large—they all have something to offer, but to capitalize on these resources, you'll need effective interaction and continuous stakeholder engagement to uncover their true worth.
This self-paced, fully online course will help you successfully collaborate with your stakeholders to improve your chances for project success. You'll learn to identify, analyze, manage, and encourage your stakeholder groups to be an integral part of your project's outcomes. And you'll see how meaningful interaction and engagement can strengthen cooperative efforts and enhance results to exceed expectations and requirements.
Learning Objectives:
Recognize the different categories of stakeholders;
Identify and engage with those stakeholders to enhance project success;
Construct a communication plan that fosters stakeholder and employee interaction and engagement;
Employ tools and techniques to help you analyze stakeholders and manage their involvement;
Explain how power, urgency, and legitimacy affect stakeholder status;
Differentiate between push, pull, and interactive communication;
View employees and customers as important stakeholders whose needs must be taken into consideration;
Describe how to encourage employee involvement and foster favorable project performance
Contact Hours: This course is worth (3) hours of continuing education credit
CEUs: .3
Key Features:
Mobile-friendly
Fully accessible
Interactive activities
Video content
Real-world case studies
Expert-supported
Credit-awarding
Refund Policy: You may request a refund up to 7 days from the purchase date. The registration fee will only be refunded if less than 10% of the course has been completed. Completion percentage can be viewed on the Course Progress page from within the course.
Notes:
Estimated time to complete: 3 hours
This course has an "Ask the Expert" feature, which submits your questions directly to an expert in the field you are studying. Questions are answered as quickly as possible and usually within 24 hours.
Learners must achieve an average test score of at least 80% to meet the minimum successful completion requirement and qualify to receive IACET CEU credit. Learners will have three attempts at all graded assessments.
This course is neither created nor hosted by NASPO. By clicking on the link to begin this course, you will be redirected from NASPO’s Learning Management System to the course site maintained by a third party for which NASPO expressly disclaims any warranty or liability. Furthermore, the viewpoints reflected or expressed in the course materials are the viewpoints solely of the course creator, and do not reflect the viewpoints of NASPO or its staff.

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