96: How to Strengthen Stakeholder Relationships as an Ops Exec (and Become the First to Know)

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You know what it’s like when you’re juggling a dozen urgent things, and suddenly a project just… stalls? Out of the blue. Later, you find out that your counterpart in another department “thought you were on it,” but you haven’t actually talked to them in weeks.

Now you’re both annoyed, and the work is grinding to a halt.

Let’s talk about something that can quietly make or break your reputation: the way you connect with people across the company. When everything’s changing, like new tech, new goals, new org charts, it’s so easy to get out of step.

In this episode you’ll get a simple move you can use to get ahead of these problems, plus a tip that really sets great ops leaders apart. You might be closer than you think to being the person everyone trusts to get things done—minus the drama.