Stakeholder Engagement Plan
WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
Stakeholder Engagement
WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
Business is all about relationships and communication, which means effective stakeholder engagement is vital to success.
Although our rapidly changing world and a sustainability journey can feel overwhelming at times, we are all in this together. Undertaking a project to engage with your stakeholders on the issues of our time provides your organisation with an opportunity to go beyond your business-as-usual communication, discuss shared challenges and opportunities, and build strong, lasting business relationships. Taking the time and creating the space to talk with your stakeholders will allow you, and them, to identify how you can support each other’s sustainability journeys.
In addition to the value a stakeholder engagement project provides your organisation, it also provides important insights and context to a materiality assessment and the sustainability strategy process, and is a requirement when producing a GRI Sustainability Report.
Benefits:
- Engages stakeholders in your strategy journey early on
- Helps you understand your alignment with stakeholders on purpose, mission, and values
- Identifies risks and opportunities
- Identifies the most important impacts and issue to your stakeholders and their expectations of your sustainability performance
- Provides insights into what actions and initiatives your stakeholders are taking and intend to take relating to sustainability
Our Process
Although all stakeholders should be considered for engagement, some have a far greater impact on your organisation than others, and vice versa. Any stakeholder engagement project should have clear objectives, timelines, and scope and boundaries. For these reasons, we help you prioritise your stakeholders and plan your engagement project.
On the completion of the engagement project, we provide a comprehensive report with key insights and learnings, identified risks and opportunities, and your recommended material impacts.
"A key part of the (strategy development) process was the stakeholder engagement body of work Go Well helped us to complete. The insights gained from this process allowed us to identify the material topics to focus on in our strategy."
– MEREDITH GUDSELL, SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER – NATURAL PET FOOD GROUP
If you would like our support to undertake stakeholder engagement, please do get in touch.