Free Stakeholder Map Template

Lucidchart Stakeholder Map Templates: Organize, Prioritize, and Engage Stakeholders

Lucidchart’s Stakeholder Map Templates provide a visual way to organize and categorize stakeholders based on their influence and interest in your project. Whether you're managing a team, planning a strategy, or engaging with multiple stakeholders across different phases of a project, these templates help ensure clear communication and effective relationship management. With 5 different variations to choose from, you can select the style that best suits your project needs.

Key Advantages of Stakeholder Mapping:

• Organize Complex Stakeholder Information: Visualize the various stakeholders involved in your project, from high-level executives to external partners, and categorize them based on their influence and interest.

• Clear and Structured Design: With 5 variations of stakeholder maps, you can customize the format to suit your project's unique requirements, ensuring that no stakeholder is overlooked.

• Improved Communication Strategy: By using these templates, you can define clear communication channels and engagement strategies based on stakeholder position and influence, ensuring effective outreach to the right people.

• Customizable Templates: Easily adapt the templates by adding stakeholders, adjusting labels, and changing colors to represent varying degrees of influence and interest, making the template work for your specific scenario.

• Real-Time Collaboration: Share your stakeholder maps with team members and stakeholders in real-time, allowing for seamless collaboration and updates throughout the project lifecycle.

5 Template Styles to Choose From:

• Central Idea Focus: Place your project or initiative at the center and categorize your stakeholders in layers or tiers surrounding the project. Ideal for visualizing relationships and influence from the core project to the peripheral stakeholders.

• Influence-Interest Matrix: This layout allows you to plot stakeholders based on their power and interest levels in the project. Use this to prioritize engagement strategies based on their position in the matrix.

• Network Diagram: A dynamic stakeholder map that visualizes the connections between various stakeholders. Ideal for showing how different stakeholders influence each other and your project.

• Onion Diagram: Stakeholders are categorized in concentric circles, starting from those with the highest level of involvement closest to the center. This layout helps you determine engagement levels based on proximity to the project.

• Relationship Flowchart: Use this template to outline the communication flows and influence networks between stakeholders. Great for understanding the dynamic interaction between different groups.

Where These Templates Help Most:

• Project Management: Easily identify key players, both internal and external, and ensure your communication strategy aligns with their level of involvement.

• Change Management: Stakeholder mapping is vital for managing change processes, ensuring all relevant parties are engaged at the right levels.

• Product Development: In a product development scenario, use stakeholder maps to align key stakeholders around the product roadmap, ensuring everyone from users to investors is represented.

• Business Strategy: Strategize your business approach by mapping out the interests and influence of stakeholders, ensuring you take the best steps toward your organizational goals.

• Event Planning: Visualize the relationships and priorities of the stakeholders involved in event planning to make sure every participant gets the communication they need.

Compatibility:

• Lucidchart

• Lucidspark

• Desktop & Web Access

• Real-time Collaboration