Ways to Engage Stakeholders in a Business Project

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Introduction
In any business, there must be stakeholders either internal or external who are willing to
share various ideas and information for the smooth running of the business. Therefore engaging
stakeholders in the project of a business is important because they will not hinder the process
instead they will embrace it and work toward the completion of the projects. According to
Johnson, O’Hara, et al (2017) project is a combination of people who have different skills that
work toward achieving goals. The business the manager should communicate with various
stakeholders either verbally or through written communication on various issues. The inability to
communicate with the stakeholders makes the project to fail. The following are some of the ways
that a manager can use to engage various stakeholders in order to get facts and information about
the business.
Ways of extracting facts from stakeholders
The managers can extract a piece of vital information through negation with their
stakeholders in order to resolve the conflict that might act as a barrier to the success of the
business project. The manager is encountered with conflict in their day to day activity be it
about resources or the cooperation of the teamwork in work or the direction the business is
taking. According to Parker & Crona (2012), conflict is not inherently bad because it provides
information that there is something that is lacking and therefore what is necessary is to manage
that conflict well.
Instilling leadership among the stakeholders. Dorobantu, Henisz, et al 2012 argued in any
organization the best leaders are not the one who is in the management but they play a bigger
role in guiding, and making an influential decision. Leaders take their time to think critically and