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Effectively Managing SME Partnerships
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60 - 75 MINUTES
Learn how to manage Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) effectively by setting expectations, reducing review cycles, gathering usable expertise, and building collaborative relationships that accelerate delivery instead of slowing it down.
By the end of this course, you will know how to:
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Define SME roles and responsibilities clearly
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Lead efficient SME kickoff meetings
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Reduce conflicting feedback and review chaos
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Manage timelines and accountability professionally
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Navigate difficult SME dynamics with confidence
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Build scalable review and approval workflows
Meet your instructor
Hi, I’m Stacie. I’ve spent the last decade building customer education and enablement programs across SaaS and technical product environments.
Throughout that work, I’ve partnered with everyone from clinicians and engineers to product managers and executives, often balancing competing priorities, shifting timelines, and complex stakeholder feedback. In all of those interactions one thing became clear quickly:
Successful learning projects rarely depend on expertise alone. They depend on how well people collaborate around the work. This course is designed to help anyone learning how to strategically build SME collaboration.
Who is this course for?
Built for professionals managing learning projects that depend on SME collaboration.
Instructional Designers
Build stronger review workflows, reduce rework, and manage SME collaboration more confidently
Learning Designers
Improve alignment between learner needs and stakeholder expectations, without losing momentum.
Enablement Teams
Create scalable collaboration processes that support faster launches, cleaner reviews, and more consistent experiences.
Program & Project Managers
Identify operational gaps early, clarify ownership, and reduce friction across cross-functional learning initiatives.