NC FRAMEWORKS :
For Organizations
Unflatten your stakeholders with the Stakeholder Onion
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Successful management of stakeholders helps you to achieve ambitious goals, and builds trust around you
Introduction
This tool allows us to brainstorm who our stakeholders are at different levels of the project.
Layers further from the core have more indirect influence and impact on your success, while layers closer to the core have more direct influence and impact.
It encompasses stakeholders of varying impact and influence levels, which means that we can map out all the stakeholders we can conceive of, and prepare better to get their buy-in.
It is also used as starting point to figuring out how to prioritise stakeholder buy-in.
Lack of buy-in at every stage is an issue
Lack of buy-in from senior executives can doom a project from the start.
Lack of buy-in from middle managers prevents them from generating enthusiasm for the change among those they manage
Lack of buy-in from the project team causes delays in the timeline.
Lack of buy-in from employees on the front line can disrupt adoption and create long-term obstacles.
Having many stakeholders can make managing them a complex task. Thus, it is important to develop an effective and repeatable approach to stakeholder management.
Results & benefits
Useful for Any Rank or Function
Comprehensive Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitates Relationship Building
Limitations
Complexity for Organisations with Complex Stakeholder Networks
Resource intensiveness
Dynamic Nature of Stakeholders
Applications
Strategic Planning and Decision-Making
Risk Mitigation and Issue Resolution
Creating an effective Communication Strategy
How to use this framework
The Stakeholder Onion can be used in different ways - for a project, for a team, and even to understand your relationship with others in an organisation.
Download our toolkit to gain access to all the resources you need to apply the stakeholder onion. Including the following tools, designed specifically for managers and leaders.
The indicators of getting vs not getting buy-in from your stakeholders
A template to diagnose challenges with an upcoming project
Guided reflection to attain buy-in from a specific stakeholder
