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Practice asking for a raise before you're in the room
It's one of the highest-stakes conversations in working life, and almost nobody rehearses it. Make your case to a manager who pushes back, and learn to hold your number without losing the room.
Step into the roomWho's across the table
Linda
The user's direct manager · Make the case, handle pushback, know when to close
Linda is your direct manager: fair, busy, and careful with her budget. She'll hear you out, and then she'll ask the questions that matter: what changed since your compensation was set, why now, and what happens if the answer is not yet. Save your role and company in your account and she walks in knowing your context.
What this room trains
- Making the case with evidence, not adjectives
- Holding a number under pushback
- Probing questions answered without getting defensive
- Reading the moment to close
How a session runs
- Talk it out, live. This is a spoken conversation, not a form. Linda speaks in real turns and waits; the moment you speak, the room stops and listens, the way a person does.
- Coached the moment you finish. Your coach reads the whole transcript and tells you what worked, what to fix first, and what a stronger version sounds like, scored on the same dimensions every session.
- Watch your line rise. Every session lands on your progress graph for this exact scenario, so improvement is something you can see, not something you hope.
Questions people ask about this room
What if she says there's no budget?
She might; that exact pushback is the rep. The coach afterward shows you how you handled it, where you conceded too fast or pushed past a real signal, and what a steadier version sounds like. By the third run, the sentence that used to end the conversation is just another turn.
Does it know anything about my actual job?
If you want it to. Save your role, company, and focus in My account and work scenarios use it to make the roleplay specific to your situation. Social scenarios never see it.
How do I know I'm getting better?
Every session in this room lands on its own progress graph, scored on the same dimensions each time. Improvement shows up as a line moving, not a feeling.