I’ve been doing LOTS of trainings in the previous couple of months. And getting loads of the identical sorts of questions.
They typically sound like:
“How do I do know when a proper time to ask so-and-so?”
“How do I do know if that asking quantity is an excessive amount of?”
“That is what occurred in the course of the ask. I haven’t heard again in weeks. Do you suppose I offended her?”
Maybe you could have requested a few of these your self.
They’re good questions. And so they’re motivated by a want to do proper.
However all of them have a standard denominator: solely the donor is aware of the reply.
So ASK!
“Ask With out Concern” isn’t nearly cash
The one manner you’ll actually know the solutions to those questions is to ask the opposite individual.
- For the timing query, I might not ask if it’s the fitting time. I’d simply ask for the appointment.
- For the quantity query in face-to-face asks (in-person or on Zoom), I all the time encourage individuals to think about asking politely larger than they’d anticipated. (There are methods to do that with out being a jerk. And please, don’t be a jerk.)
- For the “did I offend her” query, ask. Apply the wording that makes probably the most sense to you. Take a look at out completely different phrases till you discover a couple that work.
Individuals will let you know if you happen to ask them
Pondering and praying and strategizing are essential. However you’ll be able to’t learn donors’ minds any greater than you’ll be able to learn your finest pal’s thoughts. The excellent news is, these questions could be answered – and these relationships strengthened – by instantly, politely asking.
Who do you might want to ask this week?