In Your Own Words

Practice the conversations new managers dread, out loud, before they count. Nobody trains you for the first time you give hard feedback to someone who used to be your peer. Or the first time you say no to your own manager. You rehearse it in the car, go in anyway, and come out having said about a third of it, agreed to something you didn't mean to agree to, and spent the next week composing the version you should have said. In Your Own Words is a practice ground for those sixty seconds. Pick the scenario closest to yours. You get a card with the situation, what makes it awkward, and what tends to go wrong. Then you speak your opening, once, for up to a minute. The app listens to how you said it and shows you four things: your pace, the filler words you used and where, the longest run you got through without stumbling, and where you hesitated. Then you do it again. And again the next…