Framing Your Suggestions
Learn how to strategically frame your suggestions. Are you pointing out everything that’s wrong or suggesting ways to improve upon a process or system?
Share your idea not as the “only perfect solution” but as an alternative perspective.
You could say:
- I would like to build upon/add to what you said…
- I would like to present another perspective that might help us refine…
- I see the benefit in what you’re suggesting, but maybe we could consider making the following additions to that and here is why…
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