Successfully dealing with stakeholders

Each PhD project is centred around a PhD student. This might create the impression that the PhD student is the sole, or at least most important, influencing factor when it comes to the progress and end result of the PhD. Nevertheless, there are typically multiple people involved in, and affected by, a project. Each of these people has the potential to either speed up, slow down or even completely obstruct the project’s progress.

This workshop invites you to think about this dynamic within the context of your own PhD, and to reflect on (as well as experience) various interaction patterns. Both the fundamentals of stakeholder management and two basic theories about social interaction will be introduced and explored. There will be a good balance between active exercises and more theoretical reviews.

Learning outcomes

After having attended this workshop, participants will:

• have insight into the social context of there PhD project (i.e; the people involved)
• have gained insight into interaction patterns
• have gained knowledge to prevent and solve collaboration issues.

Competences

An important part of preparing for any further professional step is becoming (more) aware of the competences you have developed and/or want to develop. In the current workshop, the following competences from the UHasselt competency overview are actively dealt with:

• interpersonal competences:
  
  • stakeholder awareness
  • collaboration
• personal effectiveness:
  • initiative
  • self-confidence

For whom?

• PhD students & postdocs - 12 places available

When & where?

• April 3, 13:00-17:00 - campus Diepenbeek, Room C6

Registration?

• Registration is possible here from January 16 until March 16, 2025.
• Please cancel your registration at least one week in advance in case you cannot make it (cf. cancellation & no-show policy).

Acknowledged as? 

• DS BSH: category 'career management & personal development' - workshop aimed at personal development
• DS HLS: category 'transferable skills' - half of a compulsory elective course
• DS ST: category 'career & personal development' - course about personal development