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This is engaging practice. A patient says no. A client says the price is too high. Nobody gives way until you make your case. Then a cognitive audit gives you a score and what to work on next, and you go again.
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When a rep ends, the audit scores how you handled it, shows where you were strong, and tells you what to work on next. Then you go again.
Sample audit for a nursing student. Select Go again to move through the attempts.
A confused learner needs something different from you than a skeptic, an opponent, a buyer, or a resistant colleague. The five ways to practice name those differences.
A confused learner who doesn't get it yet
Teach a confused calculus student what a derivative describes
→A skeptic who needs convincing
Explain your recommendation to a patient who has already decided to refuse his medication
→An opponent who disagrees
Debate a classmate who thinks your thesis is wrong
→A buyer with objections
Explain a pricing change to a bakery owner who can't follow the notation
→A resistant colleague who pushes you to cave
Deliver difficult feedback to a colleague who brushes off every point
→Tell the builder what you're working on. It turns your answers into a role play you can practice before you share it.
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Each field has role plays for the conversations its work depends on. Choose a field to see what you can practice and a sample rep.
Patient education, difficult diagnoses, families who don't want to hear it
→Defending a call to a supervisor with a schedule and a budget
→Pitches, objections, and the conversation that decides the deal
→Argue your position and think on your feet
→100+ role plays and growing.
Start freeA class of thirty gives each student a few minutes of real practice a semester. Assign a role play and every student gets reps, as many as you set.
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