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In working with Focus Groups we have, from time to time found it important to define what we mean.

It may be helpful for people working in this area to consider how to define Importance (and Influence and Attitude).

You may want to provide evidence of and agree as a Focus Groups that the importance of the Stakeholders is to a greater of lesser degree important in the following terms.

To what extent is this Stakeholders necessary to the functioning of the Organisations?

To what extent is this Stakeholders of value to our Organisation?

To what extent does this Stakeholders affect the running of the Organisations?

To what extent is this Stakeholders likely to determine or influence events?

To what extent does this Stakeholders have a significant reputation/profile?

To what extent does this Stakeholders exercise authority

Can these Stakeholders/Issues/relationships be described in terms of critical, grave, influential, momentous, well-known, relevant, prominent, primary, essential, weighty, material, considerable, famous, principle, famed, sequential, notable, significant.

The antonym of Important can be summed up as: unimportant, trifling, petty, trivial, insignificant, secondary, anonymous, irrelevant.