How to Develop a Comprehensive Stakeholder Communication Plan?
How to Develop a Comprehensive Stakeholder Communication Plan Identify and Understand Your Stakeholders Identifying your stakeholders and understanding their needs is the first step in developing a stakeholder communication plan. In this regard, the stakeholders may be internal team members and executives, or even external partners, customers, and regulatory agencies. Each of these groups may have different expectations and concerns and may be interested in, or involved with, the project to a different extent. In fact, stakeholder analysis will help you identify the stakeholders in terms of their influence, interest, and priority level. Once you come to know about the stakeholders, you can design the communication strategies in order to cater to the needs of all those associated with the project. Clearly Establish Communication Objectives Clear objectives give the direction for any communication plan, enabling a person to streamline information between the flow of a project team and th...