Advising Executives for Optimized Stakeholder Engagement Strategies

Understanding the needs, concerns, and worries of customers/clients and stakeholders is essential for the ongoing viability of firms, nonprofits, and public agencies.  

 

Waterford's senior staff members have extensive experience working in the public and private sectors.  We understand the unique administrative and political contexts of public agency work, as well as the distinct financial and political pressures faced by private sector firms and nonprofits.

We also pride ourselves on staying abreast of the cutting edge practices and trends in the effective, efficient practice of stakeholder engagement.  In fact, past Waterford projects have won awards or set new standards.

This knowledge and experience guide us in our work and it is an important factor that contributes to our successful completion of projects for organizations of varying types and sizes.  

 

We advise executives on:

• Developing structured processes to gather stakeholder input, ideas, and feedback

• Conducting sound data analysis of stakeholder input

• Identifying strategic and cost-effective approaches for engaging stakeholders

• Recommending state-of-the-industry engagement tools, techniques, and technologies

• Adjusting methods or approaches as market forces or policy shifts or changes

• Addressing delicate or controversial issues with stakeholders

• Establishing messaging that builds your organization’s brand

• Evaluating prior engagement methods or approaches and recommending alternatives that may improve effectiveness or better manage costs

 

We also train and coach staff members on stakeholder engagement planning, techniques, and strategies.

 

Contact Beth Offenbacker, Ph.D., CPCC, to discuss if Stakeholder Engagement Advising is right for your organization.