What to Do When Someone Says “NO”
Dr. Maria Nemeth
Author, Speaker, & Master Coach for purpose-driven people ICF accredited
Welcome! Today, we’re going to look at something difficult for many of us to handle. We don’t appreciate it if someone says “No” to our request. Period. What annoys us the most is that, for the moment, we feel rejected. Let me give you some ways to assess:
How to prepare your request to raise the probability of the recipient saying “Yes,” How to make that request, and What do you do if the person says “No?
”I’m going to give you the punchline first. It’s this:
How you are when people say “No” to you says more about you than how you are when people say “Yes.”
We’ll get to that later in this article, but first, let’s examine what happens when we contemplate requesting something from another person.
One of the most courageous things we can do is ask another person to do something on our behalf. It’s vulnerable because there’s always the possibility that this person will say “No.”
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