National Stakeholder Forum on SDGs mean business
Stakeholder Engagement
When and how do behavioural norms adapt and evolve between organisational stakeholders and within their communities—particularly in the presence of goal and incentive conflicts? Subjective capabilities, such as imagination, pattern recognition, intuition, and educated insight, are required to navigate a dynamic complexity. We build these capabilities by letting go of our addiction to master plans. Instead, we must listen, tune in to weak signals and learn from our stakeholders.
Creating positive relationships with stakeholders requires generously understanding their needs and desires. Stakeholder mapping enables the profiling of stakeholder groups, encompassing your organisation’s impact on them and their impact on your organisation.
Stakeholder engagement is vital to an organisation’s transparency and accountability. It goes beyond stakeholder management, which implies a one-way risk mitigation process. Engagement is about dialogue. It is a two-way process that involves issue identification, risk mitigation AND opportunity development.
If you want to go quickly, go alone
If you want to go far, go together
– African proverb