Main Takeaways:
- Understand what drives your stakeholders & speak their language
- Closely partner with and align your key stakeholders
- Develop your stakeholders into product evangelists
8. Situation 1: Driving alignment
Different
products and
processes across
markets
Align on a global
solution
Product Council
Rapid Feedback &
Alignment
Knowledge
Sharing
Situation Target Approach
Alignment on
global solution
Product
evangelists
Result
9. Situation 2: Building something different
Important but
overly complex
solution
Convince them to
consider an
alternative
solution
Ask, Listen, Learn
Empathize
Open &
Transparent
Divide & Conquer
Stakeholder buy-
in
Avoided poor
investment
Significant
efficiency & scale
Situation Target Approach Result
10. Situation 3: Asking for more
Timely delivery at
risk
Convince
leadership to
provide
additional
resource
Open &
Transparent
Empathize
Prepare Well
Divide & Conquer
Resources
secured
Strengthened
confidence
Situation Target Approach Result
11. Situation 4: Saying no, delicately
Competing
request from
important
stakeholder
Push back
without
escalation
Open &
Transparent
Prepare Well
Face to Face
Successful
pushback
Happy
stakeholder
Situation Target Approach Result
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