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Co-creative Org Design & Development | Supervision| Facilitator| Certified Transactional Analyst | Consulting | Organisational Psychology

Stakeholder Mapping meets multi level contracting Some musings as I work through this stage in work where we are exploring stakeholder mapping. I believe its important to understand who your stakeholders are, I'm less keen on assigning an an arbitrary number to them. This is the humanist in me. Contracts with stakeholders are critical in more ways than one, yes they have a vested interest AND it is about building these meaningful relationships rather than transactional relationship. 🧐 Level and size of stakeholders will vary as will interest, gauge what this is and what this means for you and them 🧐 Don't make assumptions about your stakeholders, ask them. 🧐 Find out about the problems and the opportunities (a follow on from the last post) 🧐 Find out how they want to be engaged on this project and test the feasibility. Given your project, is this possible and if not, let them know and negotiate. 🧐 Have a semi structured question set, this creates consistency and allows you to understand similarities and differences across your stakeholders (it doesn't have to be a show and tell, it can be be more) 🧐 Check out their energy and interest, does it match the language they are using? 🧐 Be clear on what you need from them (if you know or be prepared to get back to them), people aren't mind readers! Essentially treat them like Adults rather than a task or job that has to be done. I see this as a start of multi level contracting or how one can apply it to their work. If you want to understand the benefits of contracting then check out my post (link below). #changemanagement #dontdotheusual #orgdev #transactionalanalysis #orgdesign #hr #consulting

👏 Yes to this and especially "treat them like Adults rather than a task or job that has to be done." It works for so many things. When we want to engage, change, support, do good work it totally helps to approach folks like this.

Typhanie Sanchez

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Thanks Nims Dhawan for your insights. ✨ I like : treat them like Adults rather than a task or job that has to be done. I will steal it from you 😉if I may 🙏🏾

Barry Joinson

Executive Coaching and Psychotherapy | Board Mediation and Facilitation | People Strategy

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Hmmmm. I absolutely agree as you would expect. Yet I wonder whether this level of engagement is just unachievable for most, especially those who've had their teams decimated through transformation programs (read cost cutting) etc? I can't think of a single client who would say they have the time or resources to engage properly, even if they wanted to.

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