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- One of the hardest things we have to do in life is reject people. Sometimes, we have to do it face to face, like when we're breaking up with someone, or telling them they didn't get a job, or telling that we have to fire them. Sometimes, we have to do it in writing. In this video, I wanna show you an example of a beautifully written rejection letter, and talk about how to write a rejection letter with class and style. I'm Bruce Lambert, from howcommunicationworks.com. This is a channel where we teach you communication skills so you can advance in your career, improve your relationships, and be more confident. There's a meme going around the internet right now, especially on Twitter, which says, Show me your rejections. It's meant to make people feel better about the fact that artists and professionals of all kinds experience a lot of rejection, and that it's normal, and so by sharing our rejections, we can make one another feel better about the inevitable rejections that we all receive in life and some of these rejections are horrible, and maybe, in future videos, I'll show you some of these terrible rejections. I'll do a video about how not to write a rejection letter, but in today's video, I wanna show you a beautifully written rejection letter, about as good a rejection letter as you can possibly get. In fact, this rejection letter was written with so much class and style and managed to make the person who received it feel so good, that he actually framed it, and so on Twitter, he posted a picture of this framed rejection letter from the Paris Review, which is a famous literary magazine on his wall, on the wall of his office, because it actually made him feel so good, and it's a beautiful letter. So I'm gonna put it up on the screen right now, and talk about a little bit, and talk about what makes it so effective. Here it is. "Dear J.P. Steed, "Let me begin by expressing appreciation "for your patience. "I know how frustrating it can be to wait "for a response, and I thank you for holding out for us "all these months." So we see in the beginning, it starts extremely graciously. It begins, actually, with a thank you, and then an acknowledgment of the person's feelings, and then a second thank you. So it begins extremely politely and graciously. "Appreciation for your patience. "I know how frustrating it can be to wait for a response," that's an empathic acknowledgement of the other person's feelings. "And I thank you for holding out for us all these months." Just another thanks for patience. The next line. "Now the news I'm very sorry to have to tell you." This is what we call a warning shot, and it's a great strategy for delivering any kind of bad news. When you're about to deliver bad news, one of your tasks is to prepare the person that you're talking to to receive this emotionally upsetting news, and one way that we see people do this when we're coaching health professionals, and they have to give bad news to patients is they do what we call a warning shot, or a shot across the bow. It's basically a preparatory remark, which before they deliver the actual bad news, they tell you, I'm about to give you bad news. And this allows the person to prepare themselves emotionally and psychologically to receive this bad news. Now here it comes in writing, but it's just as effective. "Now the news I've very sorry to have to tell you:" colon, "we are unable to accept your story for publication." So I think one of the gracious things about giving a rejection, and giving bad news is to cut to the chase quickly, not to beat around the bush, and not to be ambiguous. So after the thanks and the appreciation, he cuts right to the chase. He gives the warning shot, and then, there's the bad news. We are unable to accept your story for publication, and for any writer, this is a very humbling piece of bad news, but the rest of the letter, I think, is fascinating, because although he comes right out with the bad news, he could've put it at the very end of the letter, but he puts it in the beginning of the letter, because this letter writer has a lot of class and style. They go on for three paragraphs to talk about what was good and bad about the letter. It says, "Wild Boar is excellent," so here's a compliment. "In my opinion, the best unsolicited to manuscript "to come through this office in some time. "The entire staff here read it and commented on it, "and everyone had good things to say. "One person called it terrific, "and several others pointed out how convincingly "the teenage characters had been drawn." So that's complimenting it, and often, in advice about how to give bad news, we tell people, give people the good news first. I'm not sure that's always the right thing to do, if the news is really bad. Like if someone has, if a patient has died in surgery, you don't wanna say at first, well, your mom did real well. At the beginning of the surgery, she was a real trooper, and then say she died at the end. That's not gonna work, but in this situation, I think giving a little bit of compliment first is effective. So then a whole paragraph is basically complimenting the work, and then it goes into the criticism, and I think, often we think criticism is the hardest part of the letter. How do we give people criticism without hurting their feelings? And I think one way to do is give it to them respectfully, that we took your work seriously, and thus, we criticized it seriously. We held your work to the highest possible standards, and it didn't quite make the highest possible standard, although we thought it was very good, but they respect you by giving you honest criticism, that you could learn from, so here, this next paragraph is dedicated to very sincere criticism that results from having taken the work extremely seriously. So even though it's critical, I think the author gets the feeling, not the author of the letter, but the author of the story, gets the feeling that their work was taken very seriously. "The one criticism that kept coming up was that the story "is too long. "One person thought it could be be shortened "by as much as 10 pages. "Others were not so extreme, "but agreed that editing would be helpful. "Chief, for example," who's one of the characters in the book, "seems too minor a character "to warrant the amount of attention he receives. "The scenes with Joshua's mother "also seemed to slow the momentum of the action "though also the painted ceiling is a wonderful touch." So that whole paragraph gives direct criticism of the writing that the author could benefit from, so I think it softens the blow of the rejection to prove how seriously they took the work, and then, finally, we get this closing, which again tries to pay back the face which has been lost in the rejection, and this is more compliments. So sometimes, one of the formulas for giving feedback is to put it in a sandwich, right, so you give a compliment, then you give a criticism, then you give another compliment, so you sandwich the bad news in between two pieces of good news, or you sandwich the criticism in between two compliments, and they sort of follow this strategy here, I think to good effect. The last paragraph says, "I hope these comments are in some way helpful to you. "Let me also say, though it's probably small consolation," this is another empathic statement. I know this won't console you, because you really wanted the story to be accepted, not rejected, so it's small consolation, "that Wild Boar got as far as a story ever gets "without actually appearing in the magazine." So they basically said, your story came this close to getting published in our magazine, this close. It just didn't quite make it. The standard is here, and your story just came right here, which is supposed to be a compliment, I suppose it is, though it is small consolation, 'cause the author wanted his story to be accepted, not rejected. And finally, he says, "the magazine even went to Paris and back. "George Plimpton took it with him "on his recent trip there." George Plimpton was the editor of the Paris Review. And then it ends with, "Thanks again for sending it. "I would be very happy to read anything else you have." So there you have it. Short video on an effective way of writing a rejection letter. If you have to ever write a rejection letter in your job, or if you have to reject people personally, I think there are important lessons to draw from this. It starts with such class and empathy, it takes the work seriously, and gives valid criticism for the rejection. So people, sometimes people get rejections and they don't even know why they didn't get the job, or they didn't get the prize, or they didn't get their paper accepted or whatever. You don't even know why. You're just left with a blank rejection, kind of, and it's very defeating to get that. Here, they take the work seriously, and finally, they end with even more compliments, that the author is skillful, that the story made it almost in their paper, and that they'd be willing to hear what he had in the future. So they sandwiched the criticism between these sort of other bits of good news, and of course, in the beginning, they also issue the warning shot to allow the reader to prepare for the incoming bad news. These, I think, are general principles for writing a rejection letter, and could be used in lots of other kinds of interpersonal rejection, as well, if you could abstract these principles, and put them to work in other situations. So that's all for that letter. I just thought it was an excellent example. I'm gonna fish around for some other examples from this meme about show me your rejections, and we'll look at some bad rejections soon, also. Those will be a little bit more humorous, and examples of what not to do if you ever have to write a rejection letter. 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