I get calls from clients from time-to-time ask how to properly ask a question.
My answer is always the same....just straight out ask. Typically, we'll then start talking about how to be transparent, how to talk straight, but leave the right impression. Sometimes, the client just wants to hear me say it again - talk straight, be transparent with your motives, and leave the right impression.
A call this afternoon was more along the lines of....I wnat to let you that I'm about to make a call to someone that just doesn't get it and the right impression is going to blow someone out of the water. Do you have any suggestions before I do.
This t;ype of straight talk/transparency has to happend from time to time and is not a problem as long as you recognize going in that you might be damaging a relationship and can stand the consequences. Hopefully, before you go to that extreme, you've practiced some softer behaviors that haven't developed the desired results.
Experience will show that the more transparent you are, the more you'll naturally demand transparency, the more you'll trust yourself, and the more you'll enjoy your work.
To that end....
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