Sometime when big, meaty, complex decisions need to be made you need to really consider the stakeholders involved so you can make a truly informed decision.
Through using stakeholder analysis you can understand who you are going to be impacting, to what degree and their level of environment and therefore consider any potential hurdles or road blocks you might face.
Through doing this you can determine who the right people are to consider and get involved. By doing this you can stay open-minded and get the buy-in of other stakeholders.
Using the map above, plot out your key stakeholders these normally include people such as:
- Your employees
- Shareholders
- Suppliers
- Customers
- Unions
If you don’t feel these are specific enough you can break them down further but keeping it simple will help you stay on top of your analysis.
From this you then know who the key players are that need to be communicated with in terms of expected outcomes and ideas. Yet it is important to determine early on who the decision maker is.
Reflection
During stakeholder analysis you need to make sure you are asking yourself, what do I need?
Is it time, money, resource, reduction, expansion, innovation, risk, etc?
Once you have decided on your key stakeholders and determined the root cause of the issues facing your team and the business you will need to generate solutions.
Activity
With your team and the key stakeholders spend some time brainstorming ways you can solve some of the key issues disrupting day-to-day working.
But remember to not seek closure from the issue too soon, allow it time to be fully understood.
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