Leadership & Negotiation · Communication

SayingNo — The Decline That Does Not Burn the Bridge

Three-round micro-sim that drills the warm + clear + fast decline: diagnose the real reason (capacity/fit/priority/boundary), draft a 3-sentence reply, send within 24 hours, and hold position on pushback.

3 rounds Undergraduate English, Español
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Who it is for

An introductory simulation that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, designed for undergraduate courses. It also works in vocational and high-school programmes and in onboarding sessions.

How a session runs

  1. The instructor creates a session from the Eureka dashboard and invites the participants.
  2. Participants play 3 rounds. In each one they submit their decisions and the simulation calculates the results.
  3. The simulation can be run in English, Español.
  4. The instructor follows each participant's progress and results from the dashboard, and uses the class results for the debrief.

Decisions participants make

The decisions participants make during the simulation:

  • Real reason to decline
  • Open with an acknowledgment line?
  • Decline style
  • Alternative to offer
  • Reply within (hours)
  • Your second-no

What participants track

What participants follow on screen as the rounds go by:

  • The Request
  • Your Reply Plan
  • Pushback Drill (Round 3)
  • Score Profile

Subjects covered

Designed for courses in Communication.

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