Relationship Skills Action Plan

Your client has difficulty declining requests without producing a lengthy justification that often ends in partial compliance anyway. When a peer asks for their time, they say no in the first sentence and yes by the fourth. They know this about themselves. They can articulate why the over-explanation happens - discomfort with perceived rejection, concern about the relationship. But knowing the pattern has not changed the behavior. They need actual language to use, not more insight into why they do it.

Frame this as building the words first, the skill second. 'Insight about why you over-explain hasn't changed the behavio...