Sharing your experience helps establish trust with stakeholders. When they realize you’ve done this before, they will be more likely to trust your advice.
Asking about the perspectives and motivations of your stakeholders will help too. Acknowledging their fears and concerns — added to your expertise — show that you can provide good solutions to their problems.
See Chapter 4 Trust in Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders.
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This week Melissa Appel and I were at the Business of Software conference in Raleigh, NC. She spoke about stakeholder and provided a bit of live therapy for volunteers from the crowd. I also spoke about stakeholder management at INDUSTRY: The Product Conference in Cleveland, OH. Check out more photos on LinkedIn or Facebook.
Other events coming up...
Business of Software
Roadmaps
Coach Phil Hornby will lead a CPO online discussion on Roadmaps: the Key to Great Product Decisions. Thursday, October 10 @ 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET. Register.
Survey
My friend Teresa Torres runs an industry research survey for product people. Care to participate?