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Half Day | Max. 20 Participants
Workshop Outcomes
- Identify and prioritise your key stakeholders by understanding who matters most and why
- Develop a clear picture of what each stakeholder needs and tailor communication to build trust and engagement
- Leave with a working stakeholder map and communication strategy you can begin applying to a real piece of work
Topics Covered
- Stakeholder mapping — identifying, categorising, and prioritising your stakeholders
- Understanding what stakeholders need — goals, concerns, and communication preferences
- Building a targeted engagement strategy for your most important stakeholder relationships
Location
- Willing to work remote
- Willing to work interstate
- Willing to work internationally
How can this workshop be delivered?
- Face to Face
- Virtual
Overview
Every professional operates within a web of stakeholders, the people whose support, engagement, or sign-off can make or break their work. Yet few people invest in systematically managing those relationships, often defaulting to ad hoc communication when things go wrong.
This half-day workshop introduces participants to the essentials of stakeholder management. Rather than covering every dimension of organisational influence and politics, this session focuses on the fundamentals: how to identify and prioritise your key stakeholders, how to understand what matters to them, and how to build a straightforward approach to keeping those relationships productive.
Participants leave with a practical stakeholder map and a targeted communication strategy they can begin applying immediately, not a complex system, but a clear and usable foundation for better stakeholder engagement.
Workshop Outcomes
- Identify and prioritise your key stakeholders by understanding who matters most and why
- Develop a clear picture of what each stakeholder needs and tailor communication to build trust and engagement
- Leave with a working stakeholder map and communication strategy you can begin applying to a real piece of work
Topics Covered
- Stakeholder mapping — identifying, categorising, and prioritising your stakeholders
- Understanding what stakeholders need — goals, concerns, and communication preferences
- Building a targeted engagement strategy for your most important stakeholder relationships
Who is this workshop for
This half-day workshop is well suited to:
- Project leaders and team leads managing cross-functional or cross-organisational work
- Professionals who frequently need buy-in, approval, or collaboration from others
- Emerging leaders beginning to navigate more complex stakeholder environments
- Anyone who finds stakeholder communication reactive rather than strategic
Particularly valuable for those managing projects or change initiatives where stakeholder alignment is critical to success.
Handouts/materials provided
Stakeholder Mapping Template (a visual tool for identifying, categorising, and prioritising key stakeholders)
Stakeholder Communication Planner (a simple framework for planning targeted engagement)
What to bring
A current project or piece of work where stakeholder management is relevant
Pen and notepad
Facilitator
About the facilitator
Based in Sydney, Australia, Peter has been managing, leading, consulting, coaching, training and facilitating within public and private sector organisations for the past 20 years.
For the past 7 years Peter has been one of a select group of facilitators flown in to flash points on mission critical assignments with the United Nations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and South Sudan.
When deployed, he is responsible for taking teams through mindfulness exercises to aid in decision making and problem solving, as well as strategic planning, leadership, communication, presentation skills and conflict resolution techniques.
Peter also coaches senior executives on mindfulness and the neuroscience of optimal performance with leading blue chip organisations around the world.
His work in this arena is supported by accreditations in the Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intel- ligence Test, and the My Brain Solutions Neuroscience assessment tool.
Peter’s recent contracts have involved an organisation wide culture change program with one of Australia’s oldest institutions, a global roll-out of consulting skills training to one of the big four accounting firms and leadership development training and coaching for the United Nations Secretariat.
Peter has worked across a wide cross section of the business community: media and communications, professional services, banking and finance, utilities, hospitality, government, community and NGO groups delivering to groups as diverse as senior defence personnel and health care directors, and from finance executives to frontline manufacturing employees.
Peter’s career began in the publishing and public relations industry in a frontline management role before advancing to senior roles in human resources, learning and development, and quality assurance. He was responsible for the creation of a company wide coaching framework in his most recent role, and regular writes on organisational change in publications here in Australia and overseas.
He has the formal qualifications of a bachelor in Adult Education and Training from Melbourne University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Organisational Change and Consulting from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Peter has is also accredited in the Myer Briggs Type Indicator, The D.I.S.C. profiling tool, a Master Practitioner in NLP, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, an experiential learning traineeship from the U.S. and Internal Auditor Certification from SAI Global.
Key Expertise
- Resilience, Mindfulness, and Emotional Agility
- Sense Making and Complexity Management
- Coaching, Conflict, and Performance Conversation Skills
- Strategy & Change Agility
- Team Development
- Skilled Volunteer & Charity Sector 'Hackathons'
- Large Group Facilitation
- Critical Incident Facilitation
- Presentation Skills
- Executive Presence
Industry Focus
- Local, State, and National Government
- Professional Services
- Higher Education
- NFP and Charity Sector
- Financial Services
- Utilities, Mining, & Industry
- Automotive
- Travel & Hospitality
- International Development; United Nations.
- Health Care and Hospitals
Based in:
About the facilitator
Based in Sydney, Australia, Peter has been managing, leading, consulting, coaching, training and facilitating within public and private sector organisations for the past 20 years.
For the past 7 years Peter has been one of a select group of facilitators flown in to flash points on mission critical assignments with the United Nations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and South Sudan.
When deployed, he is responsible for taking teams through mindfulness exercises to aid in decision making and problem solving, as well as strategic planning, leadership, communication, presentation skills and conflict resolution techniques.
Peter also coaches senior executives on mindfulness and the neuroscience of optimal performance with leading blue chip organisations around the world.
His work in this arena is supported by accreditations in the Mayer Salovey Caruso Emotional Intel- ligence Test, and the My Brain Solutions Neuroscience assessment tool.
Peter’s recent contracts have involved an organisation wide culture change program with one of Australia’s oldest institutions, a global roll-out of consulting skills training to one of the big four accounting firms and leadership development training and coaching for the United Nations Secretariat.
Peter has worked across a wide cross section of the business community: media and communications, professional services, banking and finance, utilities, hospitality, government, community and NGO groups delivering to groups as diverse as senior defence personnel and health care directors, and from finance executives to frontline manufacturing employees.
Peter’s career began in the publishing and public relations industry in a frontline management role before advancing to senior roles in human resources, learning and development, and quality assurance. He was responsible for the creation of a company wide coaching framework in his most recent role, and regular writes on organisational change in publications here in Australia and overseas.
He has the formal qualifications of a bachelor in Adult Education and Training from Melbourne University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Organisational Change and Consulting from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Peter has is also accredited in the Myer Briggs Type Indicator, The D.I.S.C. profiling tool, a Master Practitioner in NLP, Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, an experiential learning traineeship from the U.S. and Internal Auditor Certification from SAI Global.
Key Expertise
- Resilience, Mindfulness, and Emotional Agility
- Sense Making and Complexity Management
- Coaching, Conflict, and Performance Conversation Skills
- Strategy & Change Agility
- Team Development
- Skilled Volunteer & Charity Sector 'Hackathons'
- Large Group Facilitation
- Critical Incident Facilitation
- Presentation Skills
- Executive Presence
Industry Focus
- Local, State, and National Government
- Professional Services
- Higher Education
- NFP and Charity Sector
- Financial Services
- Utilities, Mining, & Industry
- Automotive
- Travel & Hospitality
- International Development; United Nations.
- Health Care and Hospitals
Based in:
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