Clear Communication: How to Ask for What You Need

Want to make a change in your workplace and grow together? Well, we want to help! This class is great for teams looking to eliminate confusion and boost productivity with new communication skills.

This class will help you develop clear communication strategies for asking for what you need. We will give you the vocabulary to better understand the various types of requests and how they are best relayed to colleagues. For example, upgrading “soft asks”, which can create confusion and end up with a missed deadline, to clear and actionable requests. Beyond language coaching, you will learn a practical framework for holding yourself and others accountable for improving performance at the individual and team level. In addition, you’ll receive a tool for handling breakdowns in accountability.
Following the session, you will be equipped to transform your teams’ conversations—to help you do your job, and do it well.

Together we will: 

• Unlock the tools to ask for what you need and deal with breakdowns in accountability
• Learn to recognize the differences between a “soft ask” and a “clear request” and between a “hedge” and a “clear agreement.”
• Engage in valuable conversations around communication, accountability,
  and productivity

Lori Zukin, Ph.D., is founder and CEO of Zukin Leadership. As an executive, team coach, and consultant, Lori empowers her clients to do what they love, and love what they do. She supports clients across a broad range of sectors from the NFL to Under Armour and Baker Tilly to Slalom Consulting. A faculty member at Georgetown and Stanford’s continuing ed programs, she draws on her days as an executive—leading a team, building the business, and developing others—to relate to leaders’ needs and support breakthrough moments.