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Tools for Stakeholder Classification and Grouping

This chapter covers helpful tools and techniques for effective stakeholder engagement and stakeholder management. In essence, stakeholder management is a relationship game. If you build strong connections and relationships with your stakeholders, you will find that collaborating with them becomes easier both when things are running smoothly and during challenging times. Although problems are rarely solved by the adoption of tools and techniques, those discussed in this chapter may help you to acquire insights, create transparency, and design your stakeholder management strategy and tactics.

Tools and techniques, however, do not improve your stakeholder management directly. That’s where you ...

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