I'm really struggling with this. I very much disagree with her that someone needs to go to this workshop because I do not believe it will be helpful. She has had an experience working with a very large local regranting agency and because she engaged staff she got extra visibility from them, but that's unlikely to happen in this case for this organization because it's not a regranting agency and SO much smaller. I do not find there will be any extra benefit at this point.

The problem is, if I express this and voice my opinion, she's going to rebut in a way that's invalidates ALL my experience doing this. I'm just so caught up in my need to people please, and I don't know how to be comfortable with saying, I disagree, this is why, and you can take that advice or leave it. You can follow the other consultant's advice if you want to, or mine. It's up to you.

I think because she is older than me she somehow thinks that she knows more than me. But she has never done my job before or even at the high level I have done it at. I think I need to keep reminding myself that my opinion matters and it's okay if she disagrees with me. I can give a counter opinion and let the client decide.

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