02/05/2025 – The First Barrier that Holds us Back in Difficult Conversations
Last week I was talking to a client who shared that he lost his cool in a meeting. He was meeting with a colleague who consistently gave him tasks that…
Last week I was talking to a client who shared that he lost his cool in a meeting. He was meeting with a colleague who consistently gave him tasks that…
Surprise! This looks a little different right? One of the things I’m starting in 2025 is to provide a monthly roundup of the top 5 resources others have found helpful. …
Professional athletes don’t just show up to their games without practicing. That would be a recipe for disaster. Similarly, you wouldn’t show up to a test without studying. There’s a…
Maybe you’re the kind of person that always wants to know WHY things are happening or WHY they’re going wrong. So of course in hard conversations it’s frustrating when you…
Feedback has never been easy. Simple to understand yes, but harder to actually do well consistently. This is one of the most common topics I talk about with leaders -…
If you’re like me, you really value being honest and transparent. And in hard conversations, when you don’t feel like the other person is being entirely truthful, it can be…
This was and is a wild week, with lots of emotions for everyone. People are feeling all sorts of ways with the results of the US presidential election. Some are…
It may seem like the election season is getting longer and longer and things are getting more and more angry. You’re not totally wrong. There’s definitely more anger and emotion…
Last week, I talked about challenging the assumptions we make about others. But how do you deal with the assumptions that you make about yourself? For instance, my ongoing feeling…
For a lot of people, the time before a hard conversation is the hardest time. You get yourself worked up and really anxious about a lot of things coming up…