There’s a conversation I keep putting off. Help me start it.

A one-page plan for a hard talk: your opening line, your one point, and replies for the pushback.


When to use
When you know what needs saying and have rehearsed it in the shower for weeks.
Time
10 min
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The hard conversation

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I need to have a hard conversation with about . What I’m most afraid of is that . Ask me up to four questions, one at a time, about our history and what I want to be true afterward. Then tell me in a few lines how this conversation probably looks from their side, and say where you’re guessing. After that, write a one-page plan: an opening sentence I can say out loud, the one thing I need them to hear, the three reactions I’m most likely to get with a calm reply to each, and what a good-enough outcome looks like. Don’t script them as the villain.

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