SKILL.md
Stakeholder Alignment
Drive cross-functional momentum by mapping incentives and co-creating solutions
Help the user with stakeholder alignment using insights from 30 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.
How to Help
- Incentive Mapping - Guidance on how to identify the goals, fears, and OKRs of key stakeholders to tailor your messaging.
- Conflict Neutralization - Practical scripts and mindset shifts for moving from defensive pushback to collaborative discovery.
- Co-creation Strategy - Frameworks for involving partners early in the design process to ensure they feel like authors rather than reviewers.
- Communication Standardization - Methods for creating a single source of truth that prevents information drift across functions.
Core Principles
Adopt an Improv Mindset
Adam Grenier: "If you approach it with that 'Yes, and...', it's often still true. It's like, oh, both of these things can be true at once. You could have a different goal than I have, or you have a system problem local to you that is important to you and it's not important to me."
Use the Yes and technique to validate a collaborator perspective before adding your own constraints. This allows competing priorities to coexist without stalling progress or damaging the rapport between teams.