stakeholder-alignment

SKILL.md

Help users achieve stakeholder alignment using frameworks from 88 product leaders.

Guides users through understanding stakeholder motivations, structuring pre-alignment conversations, and preparing for objections using the "Most Obvious Objections" framework

Emphasizes presenting multiple options with trade-offs and a clear recommendation, rather than single proposals that invite criticism

Teaches core principles including distinguishing disagreement from misunderstanding, building trust through consistency, and repeating messages across multiple formats and channels

Provides specific questioning prompts to uncover gatekeepers, success definitions, and unaligned strategy signals before high-stakes meetings

Flags common mistakes like skipping pre-alignment, assuming one communication suffices, and failing to understand what each stakeholder personally cares about

Stakeholder Alignment

Help the user achieve stakeholder alignment using frameworks and insights from 88 product leaders.

How to Help

When the user asks for help with stakeholder alignment:

Understand the situation - Ask who the stakeholders are, what decision needs to be made, and where resistance is coming from

Identify motivations - Help them understand what each stakeholder cares about and their definition of success

Structure the approach - Guide them on pre-alignment, communication sequence, and how to present options

Prepare for objections - Help anticipate the Most Obvious Objections (MOOs) and prepare responses

Core Principles

Understand how they think, not what they think

Hilary Gridley: "What's more helpful than understanding what your CEO thinks is understanding how your CEO thinks." Analyze recurring themes in a leader's feedback to translate it into actionable principles rather than chasing specific opinions.