Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan stakeholder consultation
- Review and assess current and potential stakeholders to determine needs, interests, and priorities and trends, in consultation with colleagues
- Identify key stakeholders, their representatives and ways to establish and maintain links
- Research and maintain a collection of current relevant information on stakeholders
- Check organisational plans for appropriate reference to interaction with stakeholders
- Ensure planning takes account of relevant internal and external factors
- Establish productive stakeholder relationships
- Use a range of formal and informal strategies to facilitate relationships between stakeholders and own organisation
- Identify and assess strategies for formal links between own organisation and key stakeholders
- Implement strategies likely to be successful in establishing productive relationships with stakeholders
- Determine purpose and parameters of specific consultations, and brief participants accordingly
- Integrate information from stakeholder consultations into organisational planning and share with relevant colleagues in a timely manner
- Monitor and evaluate stakeholder relationships and take appropriate action to continuously improve them, in consultation with colleagues
- Represent organisation to local community