The Best Way to Give Someone Bad News
3 min readSep 12, 2019
Step by step method
Imagine you have to tell someone some bad news:
- that they didn’t get the job
- that they didn’t get the loan they applied for
- that you are breaking up with him/her
- that their car was stolen
- that the car they let you borrow was hit by a truck in the parking lot
- that someone broke into their house
- that the package they ordered has been lost
What is the best way to do this?
How do you go about telling someone about something that you know will upset them without destroying the relationship or with the least amount of drama?
Whether it in a business situation or in a personal situation, the bad news must be delivered, but there is a method of doing it that can soften the blow.
