FAQ

What is stakeholder communication?

Short answer

Stakeholder communication is communication directed at parties with a defined interest in an organization's decisions, performance, or behavior.

Full answer

Stakeholders include employees, customers, partners, investors, regulators, and the public. Stakeholder communication is high-stakes and high-frequency; done well, it builds durable trust, done poorly it accumulates risk silently. The discipline is to tailor framing without changing facts, anticipate questions rather than only answer them, and maintain consistency across stakeholder groups so that one group's view of the organization is recognizable to another.

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