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In popular imagination, project managers spend their days managing budgets and tracking schedules, concerned only that a project be completed as quickly and as cheaply as possible.

While it is true that project managers are often concerned with project timelines and expenditures, a truly skilled project manager considers other factors as well. Communications management, risk management, and stakeholder engagement are all crucial parts of the job.

A stakeholder engagement plan – also known as a stakeholder management plan – is a subsidiary document that is often created alongside the main project plan for a given body of work. It is a written document that is formulated before a project begins, and which is kept on file and updated over the course of the project as necessary. Its purpose is to identify a project’s key stakeholders, and to outline a methodology and approach for how the project team will interact and communicate with those stakeholders. 

All projects include stakeholders. These are the individuals, often in management, who have an interest in the success of the project for personal and professional reasons.

Stakeholders can hold tremendous sway over how a project progresses. They authorize and allocate resources to the project, and may also decide to pause or stop a project completely if they feel that it is not delivering the expected or desired outcome. It is crucial that the project team outline a way of managing these expectations because all stakeholders will be engaged to a different degree, and may have their own motivations or expectations for a project.

Stakeholder Identification is used to identify all of the project’s stakeholders by name. At a minimum, the section also defines their roles and responsibilities as they relate to the project, but Mills notes that, in some cases, it can be much more extensive.

The next section is dedicated to actually determining how the project team will interact and engage with the stakeholders identified in the first portion of the plan. 

The final portion of the plan is essentially an outline of the various activities the project team will undertake to communicate with stakeholders, manage their expectations, and keep them engaged with the project. This includes activities such as pre-planned meetings with stakeholders or key reports. 

This template will primarily be useful to project managers. You can use this template when preparing a project management plan. You can describe the stakeholders in detail and specify the meeting schedule. Team leaders and product owners can also use this template when discussing projects at weekly sprints.

Stakeholder Engagement Plan is a professional and modern template that contains six stylish and fully editable slides. If necessary, you can change all elements of the slide in accordance with your corporate requirements. This template will be useful to project managers, team leaders, startup leaders. The Stakeholder Engagement Plan template will seamlessly complement your presentations and will be a great addition to your collection of professional presentations.