Influencing
Practitioner Experience
Experience an Embedded Practice in real work.
Obtain support ahead of the meeting so the room just confirms what's already settled.
The meeting itself is too late to do the influencing. The 24 hours before it are when outcomes are actually shaped.
When does this matter?
Any meeting where you need alignment, a decision, or a shift in someone's position. If the outcome matters, the pre-meeting move runs.
What do I do?
24–48 hours before, talk to the one or two people who'll decide the outcome. Ask what worries them, then address it before the room assembles.
How will I know it's working?
You'll know it's clicking when meetings start feeling shorter — because the real conversation already happened.
How do I know it worked?
You stop losing rooms your ideas should win. The conditions for yes are already built before the meeting starts.
- You wing it in the meeting.
- You didn't have all the inputs you needed for the room to approve your idea.
- You understood other perspectives first.
- The consensus is achieved from respectful preparation.
Shape the outcome before the room does.