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Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Purposedifferent
When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min60–90 min30 min Setup, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
2-62-81-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk NotesRAID Log, Status Report Source
Tags1 shared
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping