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 … [Continue reading]
Stakeholder Strategy Examples
Assuming you have been and starting to , you might find it useful to take a look at a few examples of strategies which clients have arrived at during coaching on the Stakeholder Influence Process. As you will see, it doesn't have to be complicated … [Continue reading]
Planning Stakeholder Meetings
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 … [Continue reading]
Exercise: Developing Stakeholder Influence
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 … [Continue reading]
Exercise: Challenging Your Stakeholder Strategy
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 … [Continue reading]
How to Assess Your Stakeholders
Having a list of stakeholders is a good start; but to get a sense of the priorities, you need to understand their position relative to your Influencing Goal and to each other. That way you can begin to see the bigger picture and develop a clear … [Continue reading]
How to Identify Your Stakeholders
In this guide, I will focus on helping you to increase your ability to quickly identify the stakeholders who are critical to your success. It is all too easy to focus time and effort on the wrong ones and lose ground in your influence. This aspect … [Continue reading]
Group Stakeholder Management
If you have a very big goal on your hands which could affect a very large number of people, you should probably start off identifying the stakeholders by groups rather than individuals. The reason for this is that you will find it very difficult … [Continue reading]
Prioritising Stakeholders to Analyse
The final part of this step is to consider how much impact each person could have — how much could they help or hinder your progress? In many ways, this is a combination of the benefit (or loss) that they are aware of which could be heading their … [Continue reading]
Introduction to Stakeholder Identification
To achieve your goals and influence effectively, it is vital to focus your energy on those who can have the greatest ability to help or hinder. Without this focus, people tend to work on those who are nearest, best known or most convenient rather … [Continue reading]
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