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"Assessment of Stakeholder Interest Template"

This stakeholder interest template enables you evaluate who needs to involved in your project and identify your key stakeholders. Once this information has been collected, the project manager can decide the most appropriate level of participation and what role each stakeholder should play as part of the planning, development, implementation and acceptance. Such analysis will highlight any issues, problems or barrier that may exist between stakeholders.

One of the key principles of project management is thoroughness and preparation from its inception and during its planning. Successful projects have spent sufficient time planning and assessing all facets of a project. The more effective your data gathering is and the more systematic your planning is the better you will be able to monitor and manage your project to a successful completion.

An essential part of this preparation is your ability as project manger to have as full an appreciation as possible of the expectations and motivations for the key supporters and champions of your project as possible. Once you have this knowledge base you can begin to formulate how each of these individuals needs to be managed so that their expectations of the project are realistic. It is your role to educate them on what is realistic to expect from your project.

Our template's tabular format enables you to have a visual representation of how stakeholders' interests and benefits in the project match or conflict with each other. This allows you to group stakeholders in a logical way for communications. You can also begin to identify potential roles they could perform in the project and match these to the attributes and expertise they bring to the project. This will also help you to identify potential issues and assess the risk to the project these could pose and how you could counteract them to ensure the project's success.

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