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Originally Posted by janetg just remember to keep to the facts and leave the emotion out of any dispute. how you handle can define you in ways you would not imagine. |
I attended a workshop for my corporate job that taught us to pick out the actionable sentences from an email or a conversation, and only reply to those.
For example, you have a customer email that drones on and on for 15-20 sentences, and buried in all of that is one sentence that says "I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WON'T GIVE ME A REFUND." That is the only sentence to respond to, and simply state the verbiage in the contract and leave it at that.
I use this technique a lot in my professional interactions with customers, and it works wonders at defusing tense situations.