Flexible Work: Get a
YES by Doing These Steps
My bookshelf holds a communications skills reference
that, since 1995, I've used over and over in gearing up
for a crucial conversation.
It’s called, Communicate with Confidence! How to
Say It Right the First Time and Every Time.
In the chapter, Winning People Over to Your Way of
Thinking: Being Persuasive, author Dianna Booher
offers this on-target tip to apply to your flexible work
negotiating efforts:
Show Passion. If
you're not sold on your own idea—sold enough to find
and organize the facts you need, to
develop the strategy to suit your audience, to
prepare the presentation, to energize your
body, to select the perfect phrasing, to
anticipate and prepare for objections—then the
decision makers never will be. (Bold emphasis
mine.)
In one sentence, she has captured the steps it
takes to get a YES to your flexible work proposal. The
elements she lists are a direct reflection of what is
dished up in Flex Success,
my proposal template and planning guide, and I'm
convinced that's why so many
Flex Success users get their manager's approval of
the work arrangement they want.
But the point to embrace is, careful
preparation has big pay-offs!
Here are more pearls of wisdom to which I subscribe from
The Goals Guy <www.goalsguy.com>:
• Action without planning is the root cause of most
failure.
• Proper planning prevents poor performance.
• The game of life is won behind the scenes in time
spent on preparation.
If you're like many WorkOptions.com visitors, you're at
the edge of a thin margin and want your new flexible
work arrangement now for immediate life-balance
relief.
Move quickly if you must, but please heed the advice
to carefully plan and prepare to get the YES that you want.
Note: The Communicate with Confidence book is
still in print and available; check your favorite
online bookstore.
Convinced about preparation?
Read about Flex Success,
the proposal template and planning guide—and the
preferred preparation tool of choice for professionals
who plan to ask for flexible work.
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