Before you start
Stakeholder and Communications Checker
Find the stakeholders your project is quietly neglecting: no owner, no recent contact, or nothing in the communications plan written for them.
Open the stakeholder register, and the communications plan if you keep one. They are read inside your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Stakeholder register
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One row per stakeholder or group: power and interest (high, medium, low or 1 to 5), attitude now and needed, the relationship owner, how often to be in touch, and when they last were.
Communications plan (optional)
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One row per communication: its audience (names, roles or groups), frequency, owner and when it last went out.
Registers go stale
A stakeholder register is filled in carefully at the start and then left. Months later the powerful, resistant finance director was last spoken to in June, the works council has no one assigned to it, and the steering pack still goes to people who have moved on. The register and the plan each look complete; the gaps are between them and the calendar.
What is checked
Each stakeholder is placed on the power and interest grid. For the powerful ones: a named owner, a contact frequency to match, the date contact is next due from the last one, and whether any communication in the plan is written for them, by name or by role, rather than only the all-staff newsletter. Resistant stakeholders nobody is working on, and people not yet where the project needs them, are listed separately. Communications that are overdue, or whose audience matches no one, are flagged too.
What this does not do
It checks what the register records, not the relationships behind it; the ratings and the judgment are yours. It does not write messages or decide who should hear what. For who does what on the project, see the RACI Matrix Checker.