Say the Hard Thing (and build your credibility)
Responsible for the outcome, but not in charge of the people who decide? This is for you.
Save My SeatLive 90-minute workshop for project managers · 1.5 PDUs · Replay included
Say the Hard Thing (and build your credibility)
Get the framework you need to land as leadership, not noise.
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It's not you.
It's the language.
You've been raising real risks in the one language guaranteed to get waved off: project-speak. Â
"That's a risk to the project timeline"Â
"We're adding scope if we do that"Â
Here's what took me years to figure out: The decision makers don't think of your project as project work. To them it's just work — and work is movable. Do it today, do it tomorrow, reorder it, why not? So when you defend the plan with project logic, they don't hear risk. They hear a PM being precious about their own schedule.
The fix isn't more nerve. It's translation. Stop defending the plan. Translate the consequence — into the currency the business tracks: the date, the money, the customer.
In 90 minutes, you go from → to
| Right now | After the workshop |
|---|---|
| Rehearsing the conversation for a week and never actually having it | Having the conversation — because the framework makes the outcome predictable instead of scary |
| Sitting on the risk, or raising it and getting waved off | Naming it in terms the decision-maker feels — and it lands |
| "It's a dependency on the critical path…" | "If we move this, we pay for it twice and delivery moves 3 weeks" |
| Letting misalignment linger because it feels safer than addressing it | Step‑by‑step approach to surface issues early and reduce drama later |
What's included
- The 90-minute live workshop + live Q&A
- The PM-jargon → Business translation table — the marquee take-home, printable, kept next to your monitor
- 6 word-for-word conversation scripts — flag a risk, call scope creep, push back on a fake deadline, escalate a stalled decision, tell a sponsor "no," and re-raise something you already got ignored on
- The FACT Builder — a one-page framework you fill in before any hard conversation
- The delivery cheat sheet — pace, the pause, and the small moves that make it land
- PDUs ([X] Power Skills)
- The full replay, to keep
Be the one who says the hard thing.
You already do the hard part — you see it coming before anyone else in the room. Come get the framework to make them see it too.
Save my Seat - $99Live 90-minute workshop for project managers · 1.5 PDUs · Replay included
Who's teaching this?
I'm Kate Anderson — co-host of PM Happy Hour, and a coach who works through these exact situations with project managers every single week. This is the coaching I've given to hundreds of Project Managers, distilled into 90 minutes, with a set of scripts you can use the next day.
