From the course: Being Your Own Fierce Self-Advocate
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Derisking your ask
From the course: Being Your Own Fierce Self-Advocate
Derisking your ask
- Change. You might not be thinking about it when you're advocating for a new direction or idea but the truth is, any good self-advocate is proposing exactly that. A change to the way things are and yet, when faced with change, most people actively resist it. Knowing that, how do you get the other person to embrace your new idea or plan? You follow some proven strategies to de-risk your proposal. When you do this, you take what's new, weird or different and you make it feel familiar and manageable. That way you'll put the other person at ease and you'll up your chances of getting a yes answer. One way to de-risk your ask is to connect it to what's familiar. Highlight an existing practice and connect it to your request. This way, it feels like something your counterpart's used to. Maybe you're proposing a new job sharing agreement to your manager, one where you and a colleague will share a full-time role.…
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