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Asking for What You Need

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Asking for What You Need
Keeping the Job
6 MINAsking for What You Need
What you'll learn
  • →Make professional asks without apologizing for having needs: more hours, fewer hours, a schedule change, a raise.
  • →Learn the structure: state the ask, state the value (to them), state your timeline.
  • →Stop framing your needs as inconveniences — they're conversations.
Proof task

Don't just watch. Do.

Pick one ask you've been delaying. Write it in three sentences: "I'd like [specific ask]. It would help [specific outcome]. Could we talk about it [timeline]?" Don't apologize. Don't over-explain. Practice it once out loud.

Chapters

Jump to a moment.

  • 0:00The hook
  • 1:15The pattern
  • 2:45The interrupt
  • 4:30Practice scenario
  • 5:30The proof task
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