Assuming you have been diligent in your application of the preceding steps in the Stakeholder Influence Process, now is the time to pull it all together and make quick decisions about what you need to do in order to maximise your progress towards the goal. The word...
Bearing these principles explored in Considering Your Stakeholder Strategy, let’s start to get you thinking about what your strategy needs to be – at least initially. Remember to stay focused on your chosen Influencing Goal. See if you can answer all of the questions...
Assuming you have been [intlink id="3017" type="post"]considering your strategy[/intlink] and starting to [intlink id="3018" type="post"]finalise your ideas[/intlink], you might find it useful to take a look at a few examples of strategies which clients have arrived...
For each category on the stakeholder map, there is a suggested approach for engaging with them in order to either maximise the leverage in the relationship or to minimise the potential for damage. The overall goal of all activity is to work at moving all relationships...
When considering the action you need to take with a certain stakeholder, one of the most difficult challenges is to overcome your preconceived ideas about why they are resisting, or why they may be difficult to handle. It is vital to be able to move away from your...
This is one of those exercises where it really helps to have someone else to ask the questions. The reason for this is that they can stay alert to what you are saying, help you focus on blind spots and ask the naïve questions which would never occur to you. So the...