Workplace conversations: managers, feedback and reviews
Work runs on conversations that nobody trains you for: pushing back on a decision, giving feedback that lands, defending your rating, telling your boss you are leaving.
Each guide here comes with a scenario you can rehearse, so the real one is the second time you have said it.
Rehearse: Disagreeing in a 1:1Rehearse: Difficult feedback to a reportRehearse: Resignation conversation
Guides and articles
- UK Managers: 3 Layoff Conversation Scripts to Read AloudPractical UK aware layoff conversation scripts managers can use verbatim. Includes a pre meeting checklist, legal obligations, and a three session...
- Rehearse Tough Lines Before Your Performance Review MeetingRun 60–90 minute reviews that change behavior. Rehearse key lines, use scripts, set two to three SMART goals, and follow up for real progress.
- 12 Copy Ready Sales Roleplay Scenarios and a Manager ScorecardGet 12 copy ready sales roleplay scenarios, a manager scorecard you can use this week, and a practical checklist for choosing AI practice tools to...
- Flexible Working Request Conversation: Rehearse the MeetingA statutory flexible-working request conversation works best when you connect your proposed pattern to coverage, deadlines and measurable service needs. Rehearse a short opening that states the request, the work it protects and the decision you want: approval, a defined alternative or a fair trial. Prepare answers for all eight statutory refusal grounds, with named owners, handover points, escalation routes and evidence such as response times or missed deadlines. Use the script, “Which specific operational risk should we address, and what evidence would show it is resolved?” Propose a trial…