Project Risk & Stakeholder Management
A practical capability-building programme focused on project risk & stakeholder management, designed for professionals and organisations seeking stronger performance and applied results.
- Type
- Specialist
- Level
- Advanced
- Duration
- 5 days
- Delivery
- In person, Live online, In-house
- Languages
- English, Arabic
Project Risk & Stakeholder Management focuses on two critical dimensions of successful project delivery: managing uncertainty and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships.
Participants learn to identify, analyse, prioritise and respond to project risks while establishing systematic approaches to stakeholder identification, influence analysis, engagement and communication. The programme demonstrates how risk and stakeholder dynamics interact and how weak management of either area can affect scope, schedule, cost, reputation and project outcomes.
The programme provides practical tools for maintaining risk visibility, strengthening stakeholder confidence and supporting informed project decisions.
Objectives
Build systematic capability in project risk identification and analysis.
Develop practical risk response and monitoring approaches.
Strengthen stakeholder identification and influence analysis.
Improve stakeholder engagement and communication planning.
Integrate risk and stakeholder considerations into project decision-making.
Learning outcomes
Develop and maintain a practical project risk register.
Assess project risks according to probability, impact and priority.
Select appropriate responses to significant project risks.
Map stakeholders according to influence, interest and engagement requirements.
Develop targeted stakeholder communication and engagement strategies.
Who it is for
Project and programme managers.
Project coordinators and PMO professionals.
Risk management professionals involved in projects.
Project team leaders.
Managers responsible for stakeholder-intensive initiatives.
Programme modules
1. Project Risk Foundations
Risk and uncertainty
Risk categories and sources
Risk management process
Roles and responsibilities
2. Risk Identification and Analysis
Risk identification techniques
Probability and impact
Risk prioritisation
Risk registers and documentation
3. Risk Response and Monitoring
Avoidance, mitigation, transfer and acceptance
Contingency planning
Risk ownership
Monitoring and escalation
4. Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder identification
Influence and interest
Stakeholder expectations
Stakeholder mapping
5. Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
Engagement strategies
Communication planning
Managing resistance and conflict
Building stakeholder confidence
Methodology
The programme uses practical risk exercises, stakeholder mapping, case analysis and project scenarios. Participants build risk registers and engagement plans and practise making decisions where uncertainty and stakeholder expectations interact.
Assessment
Assessment is based on practical risk and stakeholder exercises, scenario analysis and a final integrated case requiring participants to develop appropriate risk responses and a stakeholder engagement approach.
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
For your organisation
This programme can be delivered for a single organisation, team or institution, and adapted to your context, participants and objectives.
Organisational delivery is scoped and priced individually, and is not booked from this page.
Upcoming sessions
No dates are scheduled at present.
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