Stakeholder Management

Stakeholder Management

This course is part of Modern Teamwork and Stakeholder Leadership Specialization

Instructor: Martine Abboud

Access provided by George Mason University

3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

No prior experience required

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

3 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

No prior experience required

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

Understand stakeholder influence beyond formal roles by recognising hidden power, silent authority, timing, and crisis dynamics.
Apply strategic positioning, message calibration, cultural-ethical intelligence, and legitimacy-building to manage complex stakeholder relationships.
Build sustainable stakeholder engagement through alliances, mutual empowerment, structured support, and long-term commitment.

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Assessments

1 assignment

Taught in English

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There are 3 modules in this course

CREO Stakeholder Management Course helps you understand stakeholder dynamics, map influence, and engage key actors with greater clarity, timing, and strategic awareness to strengthen collaboration and drive outcomes.

This course is designed for professionals, project leads, programme managers, founders, consultants, partnership managers, and team leaders who need to engage stakeholders in complex environments. It is especially relevant for people working with internal or external stakeholders where influence, trust, timing, culture, resistance, and long-term support matter. Through this course, you will explore how influence works beyond formal authority, how alliances are built and sustained, and how silence, timing, trust, and legitimacy shape stakeholder relationships in complex environments. By the end of the course you will learn how to navigate resistance, build engagement, and lead with stronger presence across organisational and cross-cultural contexts.

This module introduces stakeholder management through both established frameworks and the less visible dynamics of influence. Learners will explore how power operates through silence, timing, absence, trust, and crisis conditions. The module helps learners move beyond formal stakeholder mapping to recognise hidden influence and unspoken authority.

What's included

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This module focuses on how stakeholder influence is built through positioning, communication, cultural awareness, and ethical judgement. Learners will examine how credibility and legitimacy are developed when formal authority is limited. The module also explores how silence can indicate resistance, fatigue, or deeper stakeholder opposition.

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This module explores how stakeholder engagement becomes sustainable over time. Learners will examine how alliances are built, how support is maintained, and how stakeholder relationships can be designed around mutual value. The module focuses on moving from short-term agreement to long-term commitment, institutional alignment, and enduring influence.