Real time response
Buying time
Create thinking time in a way that costs you nothing.
The gapFilling the gap with words because the silence feels expensive.
When to use it
Unexpected questions in front of people.
What you need
A partner asking questions you have not prepared for.
The steps
- Partner asks something unexpected.
- Use a natural thinking phrase: let me think about that, there are two parts to that, let me put that clearly.
- Use the time to structure the response.
- Deliver the answer.
- Gradually drop the phrase and replace it with a pause.
You know it worked when
You buy time without rambling or panicking.
What else it works, and why
- Delivery
- You need natural verbal or silent ways to make the space.
- Message
- The time bought is spent organising the response.
Which drill is yours, in what order and at what dose, is not something a page can tell you. That is what a Discovery Call is for.
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