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Conversation Skills 07 Making Suggestions

Conversation Skills 07 Making Suggestions

What will I learn?

  • Checkmark Make a direct suggestion by saying what the person could or should do
  • Checkmark Use words to encourage action, like, "Do it now" or "Just say this"
  • Checkmark Be practical and specific so your suggestion is useful
  • Checkmark Make an indirect suggestion by expressing your opinion about the situation, using some softeners like maybe or perhaps
  • Checkmark Use questions like Why don't you? or Do you think?" Ask more challenging questions such as Why not? or Why wouldnt you...?

Description

We make a suggestion when we see that someone needs or wants to take action but is not sure of what to do. Making a suggestion is saying what you think they could or should do – what you think is a good idea. Suggestions can be direct or indirect. Making a suggestion is putting forward a plan or an idea for another person to consider. We make suggestions when someone is deciding what to do. A suggestion offers your opinion and advice that the other person might follow or not. In this course psychologists Eve Ash and Peter Quarry chat with people they have just met and use these real conversations to demonstrate how to make suggestions.

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