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The frameworks

Difficult conversations

Missed expectation

Address a missed commitment and end with a better one.

Something did not arrive when it was supposed to.

Connection · Application framework · No. 142

The shape

  1. Expected
  2. Actual
  3. Gap
  4. Cause
  5. New agreement

A worked example

We agreed the report would be ready Thursday. It arrived Monday. That is a four day gap. What prevented the original commitment? What should we agree differently for the next cycle?

Mostly serves Connection, and reaches into Message and Intent.

A framework tells you what shape the answer takes. It cannot tell you whether shape is what you are short of, and for most people it is not. Which one is yours, and whether a framework is the right instrument at all, is what a Discovery Call is for.

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