Our Focus
Our "soul" focus is facilitating meaningful stakeholder engagement with project teams.
Stakeholder engagement is key to project success and the PMI, IPMA and APM all agree.
They also agree that stakeholder engagement, done well, in this digital, hybrid and uncertain world is not the easiest to execute...
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That's where we come in ...
Plug us into your project team as stakeholder engagement specialists when you need us.
How we deliver is tightly aligned with our beliefs, science and what we know works based on decades of delivery experience:
We believe ...
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We believe diversity and inclusion are the fuel and engine of meaningful stakeholder engagement.
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We believe agility is the result of engaging with real-time stakeholder insights.
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We believe technology can enable organizational values by embedding those values in how stakeholders collaborate.
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We believe toxic behavioral dysfunctions and cognitive biases have no place in a project.
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We believe stakeholders need to feel respected and have a sense of belonging with the project team.
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We believe that project transparency and trust results in speed of execution.
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Our clients also believe these things.
Our clients need to outperform ...
They need to move quickly and adapt to changing landscapes.
Our clients need to provide meaningful engagement across diverse groups of busy distributed stakeholders. Stakeholder teams are more fluid than ever before and represent critical internal and external perspectives.
Our clients are as diverse as the stakeholders they engage.
For-profit companies such as financial services, technology, and package good companies, to hospitals, healthcare providers, and governments. From educational institutions to non-profits, and global NGOs.
They all have one thing in common: they execute projects to achieve their objectives and they know each project, to be successful, requires meaningful stakeholder engagement.
Ask us about
the myths of wider and deeper stakeholder engagement .. heard these before?
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We'll lose control of the project!
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What if the project team disagrees with what the stakeholders prioritize?
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We'll open a can of worms!
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Everyone will be negative and point fingers. The blame game!
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It will add too much time to the project timeline.
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They won't participate.
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They will say what they think we want to hear.
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What if they say what we don't want to hear?
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It will add a lot of cost to the project to engage everyone that should be engaged.
Plug us in ...
We are Stakeholder Engagement Facilitators that “plug” into your project team:
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Wider and deeper stakeholder reach ... more cost-effectively.
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Specialize in digital collaborative delivery for a hybrid world.
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Laser-like focus on project and stakeholder success.
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Facilitate the 7 key Insight Loops where meaningful stakeholder engagement boosts project success.
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Eliminate the management struggle of finding and retaining deep stakeholder engagement skills.
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Bring stakeholder engagement consistency and repeatability across projects.
The return on meaningful stakeholder engagement ...
Agility – ability to quickly engage stakeholders, listen, synthesize, decide and act
Transparency – trust and visibility of people and process drives the speed of execution
Belonging – more meaningful connection for stakeholders to the organization’s direction
Quality – fewer “hidden” surprises, costly rework, and more valuable innovative thinking
Efficiency – stakeholder productivity & bringing more voices to the table cost-effectively