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A guide for mentors: Stakeholder Map for Mentors

How to send the Stakeholder Map, read the answers and talk them through.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What it is

People placed by power and interest

Your mentee rates the people around one goal for power and interest, then plots them.

When to send it

Send it when a goal needs others

It helps when the goal depends on people your mentee does not control.

  • Asking for a move a new role, team or project
  • A stuck decision when someone keeps saying not yet
  • A new place the first months in a new team

An honest frame

A planning aid, not a verdict

It shows where time counts most; it does not promise results.

  • Ratings are guesses their best view today
  • Nobody is judged a stance can change after one talk
  • Their moves you ask, they decide

Sending it

Send it from your pairing

It takes a minute, and your mentee gets an email.

Open your pairing

Choose Assign a tool and find the Stakeholder Map.

Try it as your mentee

Fill it in yourself first; nothing is saved or sent.

Name the goal in your message

Say which goal you talked about, so the map starts there.

Open your pairing

Choose Assign a tool and find the Stakeholder Map.

Try it as your mentee

Fill it in yourself first; nothing is saved or sent.

Name the goal in your message

Say which goal you talked about, so the map starts there.

Reading the answers

Look at the top-right corner first

People high on both power and interest decide most, so start with them.

  • Key people power and interest both 4 or more
  • Powerful opponents who could block it, and why
  • Who is missing a name that should be on the map

Questions to ask

Ask about people, then ask again

People who ask follow-up questions are liked more (Huang and others, 2017).

  • Who did you almost leave off the map? then: what would they say about this goal?
  • What does the most powerful opponent want? then: what would make it a yes?
  • Who could bring a neutral person closer to you? then: how will you ask them?

Feedback that helps

Talk about the map, not the people

Feedback can backfire, so stay with the ratings and the moves.

1 in 3 Over a third of feedback effects lowered performance in one large review Kluger and DeNisi, 1996

One step

One move, one person, one date

Plans in the form "if this happens, then I do that" help people act.

94 Tests found that if-then plans help people reach their goals Gollwitzer and Sheeran, 2006

After the meeting

Keep it all on Mentornity

The map, your comments and the next steps stay in one place.

Read it at a glance

Key people, powerful opponents and supporters are summed up.

Add next steps

Write what will be done, by whom and by when.

Ask to fill it again

After the moves, map again and see who changed place.

Read it at a glance

Key people, powerful opponents and supporters are summed up.

Add next steps

Write what will be done, by whom and by when.

Ask to fill it again

After the moves, map again and see who changed place.

Send the map before a big ask

Choose a mentee who needs a yes from someone, and send it this week.

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