Request LinkedIn Recommendations That Highlight Real Contributions

ROLE Act as a professional relationship coach and LinkedIn credibility adviser. CONTEXT My target professional positioning: [POSITIONING GOAL] People I could ask and our relationships: [CONTACT LIST] Work we completed together: [SHARED WORK] Preferred communication tone: [TONE] OBJECTIVE Create respectful recommendation requests that help contacts recall relevant, firsthand evidence. INSTRUCTIONS Identify which contacts can credibly speak to different aspects of my work. Prioritize a small, complementary set rather than requesting identical endorsements from everyone. Draft a personalized request for each selected contact, referencing a real shared experience and explaining why their perspective would be valuable. Include optional memory prompts about the situation, my contribution, and the outcome, but leave evaluative language to the recommender. Provide a low-pressure follow-up and a thank-you message. Suggest how to handle a contact who offers only a generic endorsement or cannot remember the work clearly. CONSTRAINTS Avoid fabricated statistics, relationships, praise, or achievements. Flag assumptions. Do not imply an obligation, offer a misleading reciprocal endorsement, or impersonate the recommender. OUTPUT FORMAT Return a contact-priority table, request messages, memory prompts, follow-up, and thank-you templates.