Stakeholder Alignment Tactics: Once you’ve mapped your stakeholders and assessed their orientation to your project/initiative use these typical objections and suggested tactics to address them in order to brainstorm with your team about aligning stakeholders.
Decision Makers
Who are the sponsors of the project/initiative? Who makes the go/no-go decision?
Influencers
Whose indirect support would be helpful? Who has influence in the organization? Who understands how projects like yours succeed or fail? Who do you want to solicit feedback, buy-in, and ideas from?
Example Scenario: Our example team is half way through an 8 week human centered engagement to help Movers Inc. identify new business models and product extension opportunities. Currently the team consists of a designer, researcher, strategist, and account team members.
