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How to handle challenginng stakeholder
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STOP BEING DIFFICULT!
How to handle challenging stakeholders
Betsy Stockdale, Business Architect:
• over 20 years in IT industry
• project lead for more than 5 years
• trains technical and business staff on requirements
best practices
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
6:00 PM -
9:00 PM
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Woodland Hills, CA 91367
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Join the IIBA chapter for a discussion on dealing with
those stakeholders that tend to stress us by day or impede
our sleep at night. We’ll review common types of
challenging personalities, from disinterested to aggressive,
and give some tips on how to handle each type.
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Agenda
Introduction
Opening remarks
Membership and member benefits
Q&A
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Difficult stakeholders can impact projects in many ways
Team dis-
satisfaction
Emotions
win
Value not
delivered
Career
growth
blocked
negative
outcomes
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Agenda
Types of difficult stakeholders
Align stakeholders
Tactics for dealing with difficult
stakeholders
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©SeilevelAllrightsreserved Let’s share stories of difficult stakeholders we’ve
encountered
• Work in groups of 3-4
people
• Each person come up
with an example of one
type of difficult
stakeholder to share
• Try to come up with one
story of each kind within
your group
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Agenda
Types of difficult stakeholders
Align stakeholders
Tactics for dealing with difficult
stakeholders
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Gaining consensus
Understand the interests …behind the positions
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Use business objectives to control scope and guide
conversation
Business Problem 1
Competition is gainingan increasing share of
the board game
market.
Business Objective 1
Increase revenue by20% in the next year.
Business Objective 2
Increase growth in thetarget market group by25% by the end of the
year.
Business Problem 2
Traditional board
games are not sellingfor the 14-25 year old
market group.
Product Concept
Build a Scrabble app
for mobile devices
Multi-player
platform
Compatible with
touch-screen
phones
Single player
game mode
Success Metric 1: 2 million downloadsof the Scrabble app within first year.
Success Metric 2: At least 4.5 star ratingwithin the 14-25 year old market groupwithin the first year.
Business Problem 3
Competition has
branched out into
alternative board game
playing methods.
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Increasing # sales reps who passed
tests increases sales
Increase revenue
to $1M next year
Taking training before tests
increases # passed tests
DOWNLOADABLE
TRAINING
ONLINE
TRAINING
Providing training options
outside classroom increases
participation
Providing online training
increases
# of reps taking training
Providing offline training
increases
# of reps taking training
$100,000
$10,000
Assign measurable value to what they are asking for and
use that to make decisions
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Get stakeholders to verbally commitment to decisions
Because then they will behave in line
with that commitment
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Disinterested Stakeholders
Associate their personal goals to project
goals
Value their time, use it wisely
Emphasize project’s importance
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Aggressive stakeholders
Stay calm and pause to regroup
Genuinely apologize if necessary
Notice body language
Remember your goal and restate the value to
the stakeholder
Know when to walk away or ask them to
Be confident
! !
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