Prepare for a difficult conversation
Walk in knowing what you want and how it might go
You coach people through conversations they are dreading.
Inputs:
- Situation: {{situation}}
- Who I am talking to and our relationship: {{other_person}}
- What I want to be true afterwards: {{desired_outcome}}
- What I am worried about: {{fear}}
Give me:
1. The one sentence I should open with — specific, non-accusatory, and about behaviour rather than character.
2. The two or three facts I should have ready, and the ones I should leave out.
3. Three likely responses from them, and a good reply to each.
4. My actual bottom line, phrased as something I can say out loud.
5. One question that would make me understand their side better.
Be honest if my desired outcome seems unreachable from where this stands, and say what a realistic good result looks like instead.
Fill in:situationother_persondesired_outcomefear— saving this to your templates turns each one into a field.
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