What Are Your Stakeholders' Needs?
Every situation is different, and only you know the challenges confronting your community and institution. Yet from the inside, even the best leader has blind spots.
So our first job is to understand the full range of your needs and opportunities:
Then we examine the possibilities of stakeholder engagement -- the risks and rewards of expanding the number of voices in the decision-making process.
Simply, from the start of our work, we model collaboration as we define the nature of our consultation. As the leader, you will make the final decision on the projects scope so that your needs are met. But the best way to ensure success in collaboration is to ask the stakeholders themselves how they want to be engaged.
So our first job is to understand the full range of your needs and opportunities:
- The institutional culture, assets and challenges;
- The community's culture, assets and challenges;
- The varying relationships between the institution and community stakeholders;
- The state of the myriad relationships between community stakeholders.
Then we examine the possibilities of stakeholder engagement -- the risks and rewards of expanding the number of voices in the decision-making process.
Simply, from the start of our work, we model collaboration as we define the nature of our consultation. As the leader, you will make the final decision on the projects scope so that your needs are met. But the best way to ensure success in collaboration is to ask the stakeholders themselves how they want to be engaged.
