Sparring Partner

You are facing a high stake work situation that might impact you personally, your career or business success. You feel unsure about how to address it and not entirely equipped to steer the situation towards the outcomes you are aiming to achieve. You know that you need support to manage key stakeholder interactions and navigate through the decision points.

We help you develop a robust plan for action and equip you to confidently manage key stakeholders and decision points towards the outcomes you desire.

In particular we help you to:

• Scope the situation and map your desired outcomes
• Identify impacts and possible trade-offs for each decision point
• Gain clarity about stakeholders, their perspectives and interests
• Develop a few robust scenarios how to navigate your situation
• Develop and test scripts and dry-run your critical meeting
• Manage your critical meeting and all sequences end-to-end
• Develop pre/post meeting communications to stakeholders
• Follow-up on actions after your critical meeting to sustain the gain
• Close the situation successfully for all stakeholders involved

High stake challenges we support are, e.g. sales pitches, critical career moves, sensitive performance conversations, high stake contract negotiations, difficult client presentations, managed exits etc.

We work with you on-demand with 48h notice and support you with live chats throughout your critical meeting and follow-up on next steps to secure the desired outcomes.