Asking for Help Properly · Course check

Course check

3 questions. Get them all right and the Hand Up seal is yours. Get one wrong and you can reread and try again — as many times as you like, and nothing is recorded against you.

1. What do people consistently get wrong about asking?

   They overestimate how willing others are to helpThey underestimate how willing others are to helpThey assume help will be offered without asking

2. What makes an ask easy to say yes to?

   A named thing, a size and a deadline, with an easy way to declineA general request, so the person can choose how to helpExplaining how important it is to you

3. What most predicts being helped a second time?

   Thanking them at the timeReporting back on what happenedAsking somebody very senior