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How can message framing build trust with stakeholders?

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Message framing is a strategic communication technique that involves presenting information in a way that highlights the benefits or risks of a certain choice, action, or outcome. By framing your messages according to the values, goals, and preferences of your stakeholders, you can influence their perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors in a positive way. But how can message framing build trust with stakeholders, and what are the best practices to apply it effectively? In this article, we will explore some of the key aspects of message framing and how it can help you communicate more persuasively and ethically with your stakeholders.

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Diwas Rimal

Client Manager - Public Sector

1 Why trust matters

Trust is a vital component of any successful relationship, especially in complex and uncertain situations. When stakeholders trust you, they are more likely to listen to your messages, cooperate with your plans, and support your decisions. Trust also reduces conflict, enhances collaboration, and fosters loyalty. However, trust is not something that you can take for granted or assume. It is something that you have to earn and maintain through consistent and transparent communication.

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Diwas Rimal

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In a professional setting, trust is gained by ensuring that you have provided the client by addressing credibility, reliability and vulnerability. For example, if you're new to a client delivering work for them, your credibility is established by demonstrating where you have done similar work, your reliability comes from successfully delivering those projects and vulnerabilities is about you addressing their risk. Mix these three and the client is bound to trust you with their time and money to go on a partnership.

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2 How message framing affects trust

Message framing can affect trust in different ways, depending on how you use it and how your stakeholders perceive it. On one hand, message framing can enhance trust by showing that you understand and care about your stakeholders' needs, interests, and emotions. By framing your messages in a way that resonates with their values and goals, you can demonstrate empathy, credibility, and relevance. For example, if you are trying to persuade your employees to adopt a new software system, you can frame your message in terms of how it will improve their productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction, rather than how it will save costs or increase profits for the organization.

On the other hand, message framing can also undermine trust if you use it in a manipulative, deceptive, or coercive way. If you frame your messages in a way that exaggerates the benefits or risks of a certain option, or that ignores or distorts the alternatives or consequences, you can erode your stakeholders' trust in your honesty, integrity, and competence. For example, if you are trying to convince your customers to buy a new product, you can frame your message in terms of how it will solve their problems, fulfill their desires, or enhance their status, rather than how it will benefit you or your competitors.

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Diwas Rimal

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I frame my messages by ensuring that I have addressed my client's key questions and issues. if i deviate from answering the question then trust is flakey. These things are particularly important when we are responding to hard questions that does not match client expectation but being truthful and honest but also sharing plan on how you will address the challenges helps build trust- but you have to deliver to your words and promises.

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3 How to frame your messages effectively

To frame your messages effectively and ethically, you need to consider several factors such as your purpose, audience, context, and tone. To build trust with your stakeholders, you should define your purpose and goal, know your audience and their preferences, analyze the context and situation, choose an appropriate tone and style, and test and refine your message. Your purpose should be aligned with their values and goals. You should understand their characteristics, needs, interests, emotions, motivations, and concerns. You should also consider the expectations and norms that govern your communication. Your tone should be clear, concise, consistent and balanced between logic and emotion, facts and stories, benefits and risks, and positive and negative framing. Finally, you should measure the effectiveness of your message.

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4 How to avoid common pitfalls

Message framing can be an effective communication tool, but it's important to use it correctly. Avoid lying or misleading, oversimplifying or overgeneralizing, polarizing or antagonizing, and ignoring or neglecting feedback. Be truthful and accurate in your messages, provide sufficient details and evidence, respect and acknowledge diversity and complexity of views, and listen and respond to feedback. Do not use framing to deceive or manipulate stakeholders, hide mistakes or failures, avoid responsibility or accountability, create divisions or conflicts, attack opponents or critics, or impose your agenda.

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5 How to improve your message framing skills

Message framing is a skill that you can learn and improve with practice and reflection. To enhance your message framing skills, you should study and learn from successful examples, seek and solicit feedback, and experiment and innovate. Observe and analyze how other communicators use message framing in different situations and contexts, ask for and listen to the feedback of your stakeholders, and try different formats, mediums, and styles. Message framing can help you build trust with your stakeholders if you use it effectively and ethically. By applying these tips and avoiding the pitfalls discussed in this article, you can communicate more persuasively and authentically with your stakeholders.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Nakul Ghai

Linkedin Top Voice | Strategic Global Communications, Public Relations & Corporate Affairs Practitioner | DU | IIMC | MICA
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From my experience across diverse APAC markets, effective message framing involves acknowledging and respecting the unique context of each country. This includes understanding their history, geography, and culture. Tailoring both the message and its delivery to align with these specific nuances builds trust with stakeholders by demonstrating a genuine commitment to understanding and addressing their individual needs and concerns.

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