The way you start when you talk affects if you will be ignored.
Distressing situations offer potential for major happiness.
Sound paradoxical? It is, and it's true. The key is to be sure
you utilize skills for talking cooperatively with the key person
or people who have potential to make the situation better. That
may be your boss, your beau, or even your Mom. Use all six
sentence-starters to guide a full discussion of a topic. Take
them one at a time. Wait for a response from each and dialogue a
bit about that before you move on to the next. The order
suggested below works especially well, including in situations
where just two or so are necessary. For instance, in many
business situations state the dilemma, e.g., "Our sales were
down quite a bit last month." Then aim to use starters # 2, then
#3, and then #4. Safe-starters can be used repeatedly in a
conversation, as many times as you need. For instance, you might
want to list several concerns using #2 to introduce each. Just
be sure you pause for dialogue