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Stakeholder Conversations That Work

The conversations most managers avoid: how to lead them well.

Stakeholder engagement is the skill that separates good project managers from exceptional ones. It is also the skill that is hardest to learn from a book. This workshop is built around practice: real scenarios, real resistance, real difficult conversations, and specific techniques for navigating them.

WHO IT’S FOR

For managers who lead through conversation, not authority

  • PMs and team leads who struggle with resistant, disengaged, or conflicting stakeholders
  • Anyone who needs to deliver bad news, push back on scope, or manage a difficult sponsor
  • Managers preparing for PMP who want the practical skill alongside the theoretical framework
PROGRAM STRUCTURE

3 hours. 4 conversation types. Real scripts.

01
Reading the Room: Stakeholder Dynamics

What stakeholders actually want vs. what they say they want. Power, interest, and the conversations that matter most. How to map stakeholder dynamics before a difficult conversation.

02
Four Conversations That Define Project Success

Delivering bad news without losing trust. Saying no to scope without losing the relationship. Aligning conflicting stakeholders without taking sides. Recovering trust after something has gone wrong.

03
Practice and Debrief

Live practice on scenarios from participants' real projects. Feedback on language, framing, and approach. Personal toolkit: your scripts for the next 3 situations you face.

OUTCOMES

What you will get:

  • Lead difficult stakeholder conversations with confidence, not avoidance
  • Apply specific language and framing for the four most common challenging scenarios
  • Build a personal script toolkit for the situations you face most
  • Read stakeholder dynamics accurately before a conversation begins
FORMAT & LOGISTICS

The details

Duration
3 hours · 1 session
Format
Online · Live · Ukrainian
Size
Max 12 participants
Instructor
Natalia Starynska, PMP, Authorized PMP Instructor
Corporate
Available for teams - contact us
Price
On request
PDUs
3 PDUs (Power Skills)

Upcoming cohort

No upcoming cohort scheduled
Open date - we are collecting a group.

Reserve your spot and we will contact you with the start date as soon as the cohort is formed.

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INSTRUCTORS

Who leads this program

NS

Natalia Starynska

PMP, Authorized PMP Instructor

FAQ

Common questions

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