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Manage Your Stakeholders

Peter Simoons

Tip 22: Manage Your Stakeholders. Unfortunately, the world is not always ideal, and there will be stakeholders in your alliance who don’t actually like that the alliance exists. You need to work on these stakeholders to transform them into real supporters for your partnership. As you can see, the matrix is a two-by-two.

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All the Bases Your Kickoff Meeting Needs to Cover [Template Included]

Hubspot Sales

Well, one of the more prominent, effective ways to remedy those issues is known as a kickoff meeting. Enter the kickoff meeting. This meeting or call is a conversation with the major stakeholders to ensure that everyone is on the same page. The first 90 days of a business relationship set the tone for its duration.

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System review: CogniClick for instant, personalised research reports using AI

Red Star Kim

CogniClick is a nifty system (backed by an expert team) to enable you to conduct fast, quick polls and pulse surveys amongst your clients and stakeholders and to also develop maturity assessments and similar thought leadership content. I had the pleasure of meeting Helen Kensett at the recent PM Forum Conference.

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Preparing M&BD professionals for the future – learning, skills and knowledge transfer

Red Star Kim

Leadership Development Programme from the Managing Partners’ Forum (kimtasso.com) I’ve written a report of the conference overall for PM Magazine and will share that when it is published in a few weeks.

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Design Thinking Driven Problem Solving and Innovation

Flevy

It is a way of thinking that focuses on understanding the needs of users and creating solutions that meet those needs. The goal of design thinking is to create a solution that meets the needs of the user and is feasible and practical. Collaboration: Design thinking is a collaborative process that involves multiple stakeholders.

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Book review: The Strategy Book by Max McKeown

Red Star Kim

Being easy to read, short and jargon-free The Strategy Book (FT Publishing, 2012) is a considerable achievement bearing in mind the subject matter. He continues by explaining the importance of making the strategy engaging and listening to feedback from stakeholders. He notes Chris Aryris’ observation about defensive routines.

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Book review: Build your digital marketing strategy by Steve Brennan

Red Star Kim

Despite being published in 2018 (before the Covid pandemic pushed digital marketing into the stratosphere) and being pretty basic it has some good content. At this point there’s some guidance on achieving buy-in (share the purpose, gauge the response, involve key stakeholders, deal with resistance and reward ownership).