The Stakeholder Influence Process is not a one-off event. It should be reviewed and refreshed regularly until you have achieved your goal, or the goal is no longer critical for your valuable time and attention. There are two main ways to do a review…

• A Key Question Review where you review your progress, learning, and decide what to do next, or

• A Process Step Review where you take a fresh look at one of the steps in the process to find creative new opportunities for advancing your goal.

Whichever review you do, make sure to have a copy of your Stakeholder Influence Map in front of you, or better still on the wall so the whole team can see it!

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For this type of review, remind yourself of the steps in the process of Stakeholder Influence Process and choose one step to focus your review on. It could be that you notice one step which is causing you problems in your progress, or could hold strong opportunities for rapid acceleration. If so, focus your review there by reminding yourself of the key points in the relevant chapter, but also considering the points made below specific to the step under review. Here are the other steps in the Stakeholder Influence Process with additional ideas pertinent Read More

Here you focus on what has been happening, what you have been learning and what you need to do differently to accelerate progress during the next period of implementation. These questions will quickly help you to find new ways to boost your progress… Read More