Just for Me

Just for Me provides an opportunity for you to take a step back from the content and apply it to your own professional practice. The resources below include information, toolkits, and experiences of other organizations that have engaged in the process of involving stakeholders. As you explore each resource, consider using the Stakeholder Engagement: Resource Review Chart to help you record notes on ways each resource may be beneficial to you.

Resources

These resources offer insight into how a variety of organizations engage stakeholders in processes relevant to their work and goals. Though the goals, designs, and outcomes of your stakeholder engagement efforts will vary, these resources provide the core information on the process regardless of the project type and focus.

• Internal Stakeholder Engagement Workshop Toolkit
  • This toolkit is designed to support organizational efforts to more effectively engage key internal stakeholders. It describes principles of effective stakeholder engagement, as well as strategies and techniques for creating productive collaborative environments for dialogue and problem solving.
• Brownfield Stakeholder Engagement: A Toolkit
  • While this resource describes a process specific to an urban revitalization project, it provides many easy-to-understand definitions, process steps, and resources related to stakeholder engagement. An applicable evaluation matrix is also provided.
• Meeting the Challenges of Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Lessons from Teacher Incentive Fund Grantees
  • Key concepts related to stakeholder engagement are embedded in this resource from the Center for Educator Compensation Reform (CECR). The concepts and involvement process descriptions are applicable to any content area or line of work.

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