Astonish Your Stakeholders… with a Stakeholder Listening Plan | Video

You’re familiar, I’m sure, with the idea of a Stakeholder Communication Plan. This is often a schedule of activities designed to get your project message out. But it can easily miss out something vital… Why not create a Stakeholder Listening Plan?

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Stakeholder Listening Plan

Give your stakeholders a good listening to. It can give your project a real boost. When you have a deep understanding of stakeholders’ perspectives, you will inspire far greater levels of confidence.

List all your stakeholders and set out time to listen to each of them in turn. It’s an exercise I have recently carried out on a client project. And it is a fabulous experience. And not a few of them told me how much they had enjoyed and valued the experience.

Give the gift of ears!

(Okay, that’s a pretty corny slogan. But it holds a deep truth.)

And it also shows great confidence

Only a leader with confidence is willing to open yourself up to influence. So, making a commitment to listen to your stakeholders is a powerful act of leadership.

So, if you want to try doing one thing different, how about this? Make hearing what your stakeholders have to say, a priority.

Learn More about Listening…

Check-out our short course, I Beg Your Pardon… The Power of Listening.

Communication makes up around 80 percent of the work of any manager and leader. This makes listening your single most important skill. So in this course, we’ll look at why this is true, and seek to understand what listening really is.

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• Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: Interview with Elizabeth Harrin
• Influencing Stakeholders: Start at the Bottom
• Stakeholder Engagement Tips: 5 Tips For Project Managers
• Stakeholder Engagement: Five-step Process

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