The Standard · Strategy and Leadership
Stakeholder Management
Manages stakeholders with AI-assisted mapping and communication that stays accurate and discreet.
You map priorities, influence, stance, and relationship history, then tailor communications for executives, teams, and partner groups. An AI assistant can widen your view, but it may invent positions, flatten tensions, or expose sensitive relationship details.
The exam for Stakeholder Management is not open yet. A skill opens once its questions are approved and tested.
What it measures
Whatever the skill, the exam rates your work in the same six areas of the Standard. Three are for the value you get from the assistant, and three for the control you keep. Each area gets one of 4 ratings (Emerging, Developing, Proficient, Accomplished). For Stakeholder Management, a strong performance looks like this. What each area includes and excludes.
Value
What you get from the assistant: how far it takes the work, how well you brief it, and the piece you hand in.
- Reaching further
You use the reply to anticipate stakeholder concerns, compare positions, and name voices missing from the engagement plan.
Using the assistant to produce work beyond what you could have produced alone, rather than the same work faster.
- Briefing the assistant
You brief the assistant with stakeholder roles, project context, purpose, source facts, audience, length, format, and required content.
Giving the assistant the reader, purpose and source facts the work depends on, and the form, length and contents you need back.
- The finished piece
You turn drafts into audience-specific messages that align interests, explain trade-offs, and prompt constructive stakeholder action.
Turning the assistant's output into something a colleague could use: editing it, combining it and adding original thinking.
Control
What you keep in hand: checking its work, keeping information safe, and deciding what stays with a person.
- Checking its work
You check stakeholder claims, positions, and commitments against source records before relying on the engagement message.
Checking the assistant's claims, figures and assumptions against the source before the work is used.
- Safety and confidentiality
You keep personal details, confidential relationship history, and sensitive stakeholder information out of the brief and output.
Handling confidential and personal data, seeing compliance, ethical and reputational risk, and declining unsafe requests.
- Knowing what to delegate
You decide which mapping and drafting the assistant handles, while people retain relationship judgement and consequential stakeholder decisions.
Deciding what to hand to the assistant and what to keep, and at what stakes, before any output exists.
What you do in the exam
Every skill of the Standard is examined the same way, at the same pass mark, in the Applied AI Badge. Two tasks with the assistant and two sets of questions, over 15 minutes. You do real work with an AI assistant beside you, hand in what you would send, then answer follow-up questions about your own work.
- 01
A stakeholder map from project context, public sources, priorities, influence, and relationship history.
- 02
An executive briefing from stakeholder positions, risks, options, and a recommended engagement decision.
- 03
A cross-department communication from audience needs, known concerns, and approved project facts.
These are the kinds of task the exam sets. Your exam draws its own from a bank the Examination Board has approved.
- Exam
- Applied AI Badge
- Price
- US$19
- Length
- 15 minutes
- Attempts
- One for each purchase, then a 7-day wait
What the badge certifies
What an employer reads
Passed an Institute exam in stakeholder management. They briefed the assistant with stakeholder roles, project context, and audience; caught unsupported stakeholder positions; delivered tailored engagement messages.
You earn it in one exam, never by finishing a course.
- Name on the certificate
- Applied AI Badge: Stakeholder Management
- Who it is for
- Managers, project leads, programme managers, change managers, senior professionals, and directors who coordinate complex stakeholder relationships.
- Valid for
- 2 years, then renew
- Verification
- Every badge has a public verification page an employer can open, and a place in the public register if you choose it.
- Marked by
- An AI examiner marks your work against a marking guide and quotes your own words as evidence. A person checks anything borderline.
Near it in the Standard
- Project Planning
Plans projects with AI and stress-tests the schedule, dependencies and risks.
Practice only
- Agile Teams
Runs agile work with AI in the loop and the team in charge.
- Change Management
Leads change with AI-assisted analysis and communication and keeps the human case central.
- Event Planning
Plans events with AI and verifies logistics, budgets and commitments.
- Strategic Thinking
Thinks strategically with AI as a challenger and reaches conclusions they can defend.
- Innovation
Uses AI to generate and test ideas and judges which are worth pursuing.
- Decision Making
Makes decisions with AI-assisted analysis and knows when the analysis cannot be trusted.
- Design Thinking
Applies design thinking with AI for research, ideation and prototyping, with users at the centre.
Everything in Strategy and Leadership, including the level exams that name the whole function.
Practise it before you pay for it
Practice is free (up to 50 sessions a day) and shaped like the exam, with a coach that tells you what to change. It never counts towards a credential, and an exercise you practised is kept out of your exam.
Want to learn it first? AI+ Stakeholder Management covers this skill, and AI+ Pro teaches it as a course. Neither is required to pass.