The abilities to work with others and coordinate both the details and strategic vision of your project are essential. However, being able to facilitate change, through stakeholder engagement and project management, can be challenging in sustainability projects. The resources on this page provide some ideas for how to approach these cross-cutting aspects of your intervention process.
Taking a solution-oriented to sustainability interventions means that you will need to find ways to collaborate while managing different goals, priorities, timelines, and tools. It is important to develop effective strategies and be responsive in coordinating the implementation of your team's plan. In order to develop a robust approach to project management, consider how you identify the right people to work with (see Leventon et al., 2016) the principles that you might apply in co-producing knowledge and solutions (see Norström et al., 2020), and how you will integrate different stakeholders in different project phases to achieve multifaceted goals (see Eskerod & Heumann, 2013)
These videos provide insights on how to foster meaningful stakeholder relationships that can advance the quality and impact of your intervention.
This video walks through ways to identify stakeholders and organize your collaboration with them
This video highlights why effective stakeholder engagement is crucial to addressing complex sustainability problems
This video provides an example of approaches to stakeholder engagement and the outcomes that it can lead to