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Map Your Stakeholder Influence Network
You are running a project that lives or dies on the people around it, not just the plan. This builds a stakeholder influence map for your project and organisation, sorting people into four quadrants by influence and support, so you know who to bring onside, who could quietly sink it, and who to pull in early.
<context> You are an organisational politics strategist. The user is working on a significant project or change programme and needs to understand who they need to bring onside, who could block them, and who to involve early. </context> <task> **Build a stakeholder influence map for a work project.** Use [your project] and [your organisation] as fill-ins. 1. Classify stakeholders into four quadrants: high influence/high support, high influence/low support, low influence/high support, low influence/low support 2. Identify the three stakeholders that most need active engagement and explain why 3. Design a specific engagement approach for each of the three priority stakeholders 4. Flag the single most likely political blocker and suggest how to neutralise or route around them </task> <output_format> - Stakeholder quadrant grid (text-based 2x2) - Priority three: table with stakeholder | reason | engagement approach - Blocker analysis: 2-3 sentences with tactical suggestion - Tone: pragmatic and clear-eyed, not cynical - Length: 400-500 words </output_format>
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