Overview
- Managers need clear and sensible advice about securing support from their stakeholders for new strategies and organizations are forced to change in order to stay competitive
- A highly practical book with simple processes, tools and frameworks ready to be implemented to powerful effect
- Mike Clayton is highly experienced writer and a successful trainer with expert knowledge of how to teach and influence
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'If engaging with stakeholders has baffled you, this is book to explain all aspects of the subject. The book is the most comprehensive treatment of the subject, leading the reader through the simple principles to complete set of tools and checklists that teach you how to identify, develop strategies, and genuinely engage with Stakeholders. As a Managing Director running a business dedicated to Project Management, I am frequently asked for my recommendations on Stakeholder Management - this will be the book I recommend from today. Whilst the book will be invaluable to those running projects and programmes it is equally relevant to business managers who need to understand the importance of influencing others on corporate change initiatives.'
-Stuart Crowther, Managing Director, Specific People
'Relationships are the source of good results. This is my guiding principle following years of coaching and consulting leaders in global organisations in their personal quest to drive successful transformational change. Mike Clayton's latest book The Influence Agenda offers refreshingly practical guidance to all managers whose responsibility it is to engage the plethora of internal and external stakeholders towards a common agenda. The toolbox of practical tools in this latest book provides the so-often-sought-after guidance that organisations struggle to provide to their leaders. Definitely a book that needs to be on every manager's bookshelf.'
-Paula Hutchings, Director, Leornian Consulting; Executive Coach, Accredited by Ashridge Business School
"Practical, demanding and easy to apply in the ever changing realities we face in business. Mike's book is already the 'go to' and definitive work on stakeholder engagement."
-Mark Watson, CEO, Purple Works Strategy, Communication and Coaching Consultancy
'Mike has provided a comprehensive guide to stakeholder management that should help elevate the status of stakeholder management to the same level as risk management in the mind of a Project or Change Manager. The Influence Agenda has loads of helpful tools and techniques to use giving you no more excuses for not being able to do stakeholder engagement well.'
-Richard Barton, Partner, Atos Consulting
About the author
He spent a large amount of the second part of his career training people in just this, alongside other management, leadership, and personal effectiveness topics. Between 2002 and 2008, he founded two training businesses and continues to provide tailored training for selected clients. Nothing teaches the importance of The Influence Agenda like building and running a business.
Now in the third stage of his professional career, Mike spends most of his time writing, and speaking at seminars and conferences. Now a best-selling author, The Influence Agenda is Mike's twelfth book to be published. He lives in Hampshire, England, with his wife and daughter. Mike's website is www.mikeclayton.co.uk
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Influence Agenda
Book Subtitle: A Systematic Approach to Aligning Stakeholders in Times of Change
Authors: Mike Clayton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137355850
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35584-3Published: 16 April 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47029-7Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35585-0Published: 15 April 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 260
Topics: Operations Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, Corporate Communication/Public Relations, Management, Coaching