Successfully navigating stakeholder relationships is not just about managing the needs and expectations of others, but requires a significant level of self-awareness too. Understanding your own biases, motivations, and values can help you identify and address the concerns of stakeholders and manage conflict and tension.

Stakeholder conflict often arises out of drama where well-worn scripts of victims, villains and heroes drag us into “below the line” thinking and behaviours. When we’re stuck in drama we’re blaming others and committed to being right.

Just as Einstein famously said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it”, you can’t solve stakeholder problems from the consciousness that created the issue.

Dealing with a stakeholder conflict? Elevate your consciousness

You can shift and raise your consciousness on a current or recurring stakeholder drama by unpacking and reframing unhelpful stories and beliefs. Download our Resetting Stakeholder Relationships Workbook and work through these practical exercises to help you look within to help navigate the external stakeholder challenges:

• Your drama triangle – explore the ways you are playing the roles of victim, villain and hero
• The power of stories – how we adopt and act on beliefs, and how we can shift limiting beliefs by investigating fact vs story
• Rewriting limiting beliefs – let go of limiting beliefs by constructing new ones

Download our Resetting Stakeholder Relationships Workbook