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The Organizational Network Fieldbook: Best Practices, Techniques, and Exercises to Drive Organizational Innovation and Performance
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The Organizational Network Fieldbook: Best Practices, Techniques, and Exercises to Drive Organizational Innovation and Performance

by Rob Cross, Jean Singer, Sally Colella, Robert J. Thomas, Yaarit Silverstone
July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 56m
English
Jossey-Bass
Content preview from The Organizational Network Fieldbook: Best Practices, Techniques, and Exercises to Drive Organizational Innovation and Performance

20.4. The Session

The materials required for the session are Post-It notes; red, yellow and green sticky dots, and five posters with the Stakeholder Mapping Four Box Model.

20.4.1. Workshop Introduction and Selection of Working Groups

We began the Stakeholder Mapping and Engagement session by building participants' awareness of the importance of networks. We then focused on the importance of identifying and managing a very targeted network: the stakeholders for a specific change initiative.

This introduction was followed by an overview of the stakeholder mapping activity. First, we advised participants who were joining the working groups of their role: to support project sponsors in identifying stakeholders and creating a plan to engage the ...

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ISBN: 9780470542200