From the course: Navigating Politics as a Senior Leader
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Overcome approval-withholding behaviors
From the course: Navigating Politics as a Senior Leader
Overcome approval-withholding behaviors
- Some stakeholders either won't like your ideas or they don't want you to advance your career in the organization. To slow you down, they'll deliberately withhold approval for your ideas if they have a role in the decision-making process. To get past this, ask for their concerns and do so in a public forum. You can do it in a meeting, or on an email where multiple people are cc'd. Ask for conditional approval to move forward with your idea. Say something like are those all your concerns and if we address those concerns, and bring you the data, will you approve the idea? You're putting that person on record to say yes to your idea if you address their concerns. It tends to corner them into making a decision rather than constantly throwing out new objections to your idea. I know one situation where the senior vice president didn't want an individual in the organization to advance. She was constantly second guessing this person's decisions. She threw out new objections every single day.…
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