Here’s a guide to prioritising, approaching and collaborating with stakeholders - including those you’ve not quite known how to approach.
It’s taken from Chapter 12 of our upcoming book, How to be a Master Expert, and it’s a five step plan to:
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Identify your entire stakeholder map, including “out of sight, out of mind” relationships you might not have otherwise included.
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Prioritise the most important stakeholders, and de-prioritise the “loud but unimportant”.
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Check the health of high-priority relationships.
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Create a strategy to improve critical but difficult relationships.
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And finally, establish an operating rhythm to ensure high-value relationships remain in focus.
Stakeholders can be tricky - after all, one way to describe them is “anyone who can ruin your day”. But approached collaboratively, if you’re actually listening, stakeholders can be a significant asset.
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