[Behavioral] Tell me about a time you managed a difficult stakeholder.

Instruction: Answer this as a specific project story where a stakeholder relationship was difficult and you improved it enough for the work to move.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can manage high-friction stakeholder relationships productively.

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I worked with a stakeholder who challenged almost every update because they had been burned by prior project reporting. From their point of view, a polished status summary usually meant the bad news was still coming later. So instead of treating them as just difficult, I tried to understand what was driving the behavior.

I changed the way I worked with them. I...

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