Social Intelligence and Stakeholder Engagement: Fortune 500

Your ability to master social intelligence and stakeholder engagement best practices will determine whether you reach your business and career goals in our increasingly-disrupted post-COVID future of work.

Yet traditional advice to "go with your gut" in social intelligence and stakeholder engagement scenarios so often leads to disasters that devastate company bottom lines and bring down high-flying careers, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. So what are the best practices used by the leaders of Fortune 500 companies to make the right calls in even the toughest social intelligence and stakeholder engagement scenarios to maximize company bottom lines and advance their own careers?

These leaders recognize that science has revealed how our typical approach to social intelligence and stakeholder engagement situations suffers from systematic dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases. These mental blindspots often lead us into social intelligence and stakeholder engagement disasters that drastically undermine our desired outcomes and goals. Fortunately, recent scholarship has shown effective yet counterintuitive strategies to enable you to defeat these cognitive biases and help optimize your bottom line and your career. In this course, you will learn about and address these dangerous judgment errors, while mastering techniques for all types of social intelligence and stakeholder engagement scenarios. You will draw on cutting-edge behavioral science and real-world best practices from Fortune 500 company leaders to help you and your teams reach your professional goals.

That's what you can expect in this course: methods used successfully by leaders at the biggest companies to seize competitive advantage for their bottom lines and careers, thoroughly informed by cutting-edge research, and featured in top media venues and best-selling books around the globe. The course will feature the following lessons:

Lesson 1: Social intelligence: Introduction and course textbook packet Learning Objective: Learn what the course will be about and get my best-selling book and other materials on which the course is based

Lesson 2: Social intelligence: Preparing for effective stakeholder engagement Learning Objective: Identify the 8 powerful questions you need to ask in preparing for effective stakeholder engagement

Lesson 3: Social intelligence: Addressing bias among your stakeholders Learning Objective: Discover how to address unconscious bias among your stakeholders to facilitate effective engagement

Lesson 4: Social intelligence: How to use empathy to understand your stakeholders Learning Objective: Master the use of 3 key empathy-based techniques to understand the truth about the perspectives of your stakeholders

Lesson 5: Social intelligence: Getting negative info from your stakeholders Learning Objective: Overcome the challenge of getting negative information about the facts of reality from your stakeholders

Lesson 6: Social intelligence: Negotiating with your stakeholders Learning Objective: Improve your ability to negotiate effectively with your stakeholders

Lesson 7: Social intelligence: Build strong stakeholder relationships Learning Objective: Acquire the social intelligence-based methods necessary to build strong stakeholder relationships

Lesson 8: Social intelligence: Facilitate effective stakeholder collaboration Learning Objective: Facilitate effective collaboration among stakeholders with differing perspectives, personalities, and predispositions

Lesson 9: Social intelligence: Address stakeholder risk denialism Learning Objective: Acquire the skills needed to address risk denialism among your stakeholders

Lesson 10: Social intelligence: Lifelong learning for content mastery Learning Objective: Gain resources for lifelong learning to have content mastery

I look forward to welcoming you into the world of evidence-based, science-driven techniques tested in the real world of many Fortune 500 companies and numerous middle-market companies. To ensure that you master the best practices of Fortune 500 companies to help yourself seize competitive advantage for your bottom line and career in social intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills, register now!

Who is this course for? This course is for current and aspiring leaders (executives, managers, supervisors, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs) who want to dramatically improve their social intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills using Fortune 500 company best practices. They will get the most benefit from this course, as case studies and examples are best suited to their need to seize a competitive advantage in the hybrid and remote future of work.