Program Stakeholder Engagement Plan
How can program stakeholder engagement plan support strategic choice or positioning?
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Purpose. Use this plan to define how the programme will understand stakeholder expectations, address legitimate concerns and sustain the participation needed to deliver and maintain benefits. It builds on organisational strategy, the business case, programme charter, stakeholder register and stakeholder inventory. Application. Stakeholder engagement is not a campaign to manufacture agreement. The programme should make impacts and trade-offs visible, provide meaningful opportunities to influence decisions, and respo
Use context
Purpose, application, discipline.
Purpose
Use this plan to define how the programme will understand stakeholder expectations, address legitimate concerns and sustain the participation needed to deliver and maintain benefits. It builds on organisational strategy, the business case, programme charter, stakeholder register and stakeholder inventory.
Application
Stakeholder engagement is not a campaign to manufacture agreement. The programme should make impacts and trade-offs visible, provide meaningful opportunities to influence decisions, and respond fairly to support, opposition and uncertainty. The plan should account for organisational culture, change barriers, component interdependencies and the programme's effect on other initiatives. Review the plan regularly with th
Completion discipline
Complete the document from current evidence, name its owner and approving authority, and link the plans, registers or decisions that support it. Retain approved versions and review the document whenever a material assumption, dependency, requirement or governance decision changes.
Field summary
Structured sections without protected files.
Document control
Program name, Program manager, Program sponsor, Proposed start date
A. Purpose
Purpose
B. Stakeholder engagement importance
Stakeholder engagement importance
C. Stakeholder mitigation strategies
Stakeholder mitigation strategies
D. Stakeholder commitment
Stakeholder commitment
E. Stakeholder feedback
Stakeholder feedback
F. Approvals
Program manager, Program sponsor, Program management office director, Governance Board chairperson
Protected resources
Included resource formats.
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