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Stakeholder Influence Mapper
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-08
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-strategy
Map stakeholders for a product decision and produce a tailored influence strategy with talking points. Use when asked to get alignment, build consensus, get buy-in from engineering or finance or legal, navigate organisational resistance, or plan stakeholder conversations for a major initiative. Produces a stakeholder map, recommended conversation sequence, and tailored talking points per stakeholder.
📚 Based on Power/Interest grid — Mendelow's stakeholder matrix
What to give it
▸Initiative description — what you want to do and why
▸List of key stakeholders — name, role, relationship to initiative
▸Timeline pressure — when do you need a decision?
▸Any known objections or political context — what you're already aware of
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Every blocker has a specific tactic (not just "have a chat")
✓Conversation sequence accounts for political dependencies
✓Each stakeholder's talking points lead with their concern, not your agenda
✓At least one "do not approach until X is aligned" flag is considered
✓The ask from each stakeholder is a single, specific thing (not a vague "support")
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not approach high-influence blockers before aligning their sponsors — approach order determines outcome
Do not create talking points that lead with your agenda — always lead with the stakeholder's stated concern
Do not treat every stakeholder as equally important — focus depth on the decision-makers and key influencers
Do not omit the "do not approach until X is aligned" flags — sequencing mistakes can permanently close doors
Do not build the map based only on org chart position — influence often lives outside formal authority
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpStart with
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