[Neff]

Interpersonal Communication - My employer is a big fan of the Clifton StrengthFinders school of thought, and I have found that generative LLMs are really helpful in giving me other ways to phrase asks to people that I tend to find difficult to successfully communicate with.

I usually structure it like: --- My top 5 strengths in the Clifton StrengthFinders system are A,B,C,D,E and I am trying to effectively communicate with someone who's top five strengths are R,T,∑,√,S.

I need help taking the following request and reframing it in a way that will be positively received by my coworker and make them feel like I am not being insensitive or overly flowery.

The way I would phrase the request is <insert request here>.

Please ask any questions that would help provide more insight to my coworker, other details that could resonate with them, or additional background that will help the translated request be received positively. ---

While the output is usually too verbose, it gives me a better reframing of my request and has resulted in less pushback when I need to get people to focus on unexpected or different priorities.

[vundercind]

Have you gotten better at doing this without the LLM, maybe even extemporaneously? Wondering if enough exposure to that kind of modeling also serves an educational role.

[psd1]

Sentiment analysis did that for me. I ran Watson on some challenging emails and worked to remove tones of anger and contempt. After a couple of times, I internalised it.

[Neff]

Oh yeah, since there is a built in feedback loop with the person I am interacting with, I was able to start recognizing patterns of how to shift ways that I inherently think/phrase something to be better received by others.