The Solo Edition: How to identify and manage your organisation's/project's stakeholdersWho Cares? – The Solo Edition is the same stakeholder session your team would run together, reworked for an audience of one. It's a guided, self-calculating and auto-recommending interactive PDF that helps you map out who matters to a project or initiative – internally and externally – and decide how to manage those relationships from the start. No missed stakeholders, and no surprises. How it works Work through it on your own, at your own pace – about 45 minutes to one hour, somewhere quiet. You type your thinking into the working boxes and the document does the assembling for you, so there's no facilitator and no prior experience needed. As you go, it guides you to: Name the issue you're really working on Add each stakeholder, and weigh their interest and influence Mark whether they help or hinder the work Determine the single action you'll take for each one By the end you have a complete stakeholder plan you can act on – built as you type. What's inside A guided, self-calculating 12-page interactive PDF, with room for up to 15 stakeholders An automatic interest-and-influence stakeholder map that places each person for you An overall strategy recommendation for every stakeholder, worked out automatically The dominant pattern in your mix, named for you – with what it means, its risk and impact, and how to respond, with examples A finished action plan – who does what, how often, and by when – that assembles itself as you work A clean, shareable copy of the plan Why it works Projects rarely run into trouble because of the work itself – they run into trouble because a key stakeholder was overlooked, or handled the wrong way. Who Cares? – The Solo Edition gives you that clarity privately and fast: stakeholders identified early, a strategy set for each, and the single pattern driving your whole map named and answered – all before you're in the room. Because you need to know who matters, before it matters. Perfect for Project kick-offs and new initiatives Managers and team leads thinking a move through on their own Anyone who needs a fast, private stakeholder read SESSION TIME: About 45 minutes to one hour, at your own pace. USERS: 1 – a self-guided, solo tool. OUTCOME: A complete stakeholder map, an overall strategy for each stakeholder, the dominant pattern in your mix with its risk and response, and a ready-to-print action plan. PRODUCT: An interactive, self-calculating PDF. Type in your stakeholders and it fills the strategies, the map and the summary automatically, then assembles the action plan. The automatic features run in Adobe Acrobat Reader (free) or Adobe Acrobat, on a Windows or Mac computer. You can open, fill and print it anywhere else – browsers, Preview, phones and tablets – but the automatic parts run in Adobe. FORMAT: Digital download. An interactive PDF, delivered instantly. Keep the master interactive file, and save a flat copy to print or share when you're done. LICENCE: One licence per buyer. The interactive master file is licensed to you alone – it isn't for redistribution. Everything you create with it is yours to share freely: your completed map, your action plan, printed or flat copies, with your team, your stakeholders, anyone.
