Walk into the meeting knowing what you want, what they are likely to say, and what you will say back. Five pages of questions get you there.
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For a meeting you can see coming, when you know what to say but lose it under pressure.
The Map, question one
“What is the decision, in one sentence?”
This is the question most people skip. If you cannot say what you want in one sentence, it is hard to defend, and writing that sentence is where you find out what you want.
What is inside
Each one is a page of questions you fill in on a laptop. They run in order because each feeds the next: you work out what you want, test it, and then choose your words.
Six questions that give you two sentences to walk in with: your opening, and your answer when they push back. A finished example comes with it. This is the free first page.
The four things they are most likely to push back with, from their strongest argument to the risk, and the line you will say back to each. Your answers fill in the Room.
Five things to be sure of before you walk in, from the least you will accept to an opening line you can say without reading it. If two of them fail, it tells you to move the meeting.
Your answers from the pages before, gathered on one page, and most of it fills itself in. You add the least you will accept and the smallest yes you will leave with.
Your position, the five things they are most likely to say, and the sentence you will say back to each. This is the page you take into the meeting.
Also included
The Emergency Card. Five lines that buy you time in any room, on a card shaped for your phone, for the moment they say something none of your five pages predicted.
What it feels like
Nothing here asks you to memorise anything. You answer questions, try out what they might say, and choose what you will say back.
Fifteen minutes is enough for the first page. Give it an hour if the meeting matters.
The night before
Five pages of questions on a laptop.
In the room
The Room page, on paper or on your screen, and the Emergency Card on your phone.
The hour after
Nothing. The Email After is in The Complete Lines.
One page, filled in
An example for a one-to-one about taking on a second project. You fill the page in on a laptop the night before, and print it or open it on your phone for the meeting. Your position and the first row fill in from the Map, and the other four from the Challenge.
If your position does not hold, write to us within 60 days of your purchase and we refund the full price. Your word is enough, and you keep the files. The refunds page has the full terms. The risk of the meeting is already yours. The risk of the page is ours.
This one if you know what to say and lose it under pressure. The Complete Lines if the words themselves are the problem: it adds more than a hundred of them, each said three ways, plus the Email After.
No. The Map takes fifteen minutes and does most of the work, and its answers fill in the Brief and the Room for you. The Room is the page you take into the meeting.
Each page is questions, not blank space. You answer them in order and the page assembles itself from your answers.
The free page is the Map: the same six questions as page one here. This adds the four pages that turn those answers into a clear ask and a page for the room.