Communication · 4 min
One honest sentence
Difficult conversations usually go wrong in the first thirty seconds. This prepares only that part.
Communication · 4 min
Difficult conversations usually go wrong in the first thirty seconds. This prepares only that part.
Write what you actually want them to know, in one sentence, with no case attached.
Remove anything that assigns motive to them.
Read it again and check it is true rather than merely fair.
Decide when today or tomorrow you will say it, and stop rehearsing beyond that sentence.
You are opening a conversation, not winning one in advance.