How Do You Drive Strategy Outside Your Team?

In a cross functional role, she has to deal with dealing with partners or customers that are external to her area of work. How they see your success is going to have a bearing on how well you do in the job. Trying to balance that, i think, is going to be interesting. And then also to make sure that i'm able to drive strategy outside my team as well. So let's lace her in on the external rate.