Our Approach

Positive, trust-based relationships with key stakeholders can enhance organizational success and be the source of sustained social, environmental and economic value. Building stakeholder relationships requires new ways of thinking, being and engaging as outlined in the table below.

Stakeholder Management:
Traditional Approach
Stakeholder Network Engagement: Co-Creative Approach
  • Fragmented
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  • Integrated
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  • Focus on managing relationships
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  • Focus on building relationships
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  • Emphasis on managing risk
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  • Emphasis on creating opportunities
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  • Organization centric
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  • Collaborative
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  • Short term
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  • Longer term
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  • Idiosyncratic implementation
    dependent on interest and
    personal style of manager
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  • Coherent approach involving an on-going process of network outreach, collective learning and innovation.
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    Applying Systems Thinking to Stakeholder Relationships

    Our approach to stakeholder engagement is grounded in systems thinking and a 'learning' orientation. We believe that this emerging perspective offers a solid foundation for identifying and mapping stakeholder networks, developing engagement strategies, and convening effective dialogues that lead to mutually beneficial solutions.

    A Co-Creative Approach

    CoreRelation Consulting Inc. helps organizations build networks of trust based relationships. Through an interative process of outreach to build networks, collective learning to tap the intelligence of the larger system and cross boundary collaboration, organizations can create the social capital they need to succeed. The three phases in our model of co-creative engagement are illustrated below.


    For more information on our Co-Creative Engagement Model, please read
    Convening Stakeholder Networks: New Ways of Thinking, Being & Engaging, and
    A New Direction for CSR.