Difficult Conversations

The conversation you keep having in your head — have it out loud first.

Pick the one you are facing. Rehearse it against someone who pushes back. See what you actually said.

Choose conversation

Which conversation are you rehearsing?

Difficult conversation

Ask for a raiseMake your own ask clearly, with evidence, and hold it through objections.Workload pushbackMake the case without making an enemy.Return-to-work manager meetingSet a practical agenda for returning and ask clearly for what you need.Return workload and boundariesName the work constraint and ask for a practical priority or trade-off.

Set up

Take your own ask into the Negotiation Room.

Raise rehearsal uses the Negotiation Room. Your figures stay private and customer-supplied; aurate does not calculate a target or recommend market pay.

Private notes stay in your browser tab. Say aloud only the context the counterpart needs.