Difficult Leadership Conversations

As a leader, your team members come to you for guidance, support, development and much more. Sometimes these conversations can be tense as parties have different ideas or needs. Many conversations are highly charged, and the outcome is very important one or both parties.

Managing difficult conversations is a critical skill that leaders need to learn and use daily. This interactive Difficult Leadership Conversations course will help any leader to start, conduct and manage those conversations.

Course Content

Setting the context

What do we mean by a ‘difficult conversation’?
What is the impact of having/not having difficult conversations?

Starting the conversation

Difficult conversation model and process
Preparing empathetically for a conversation
Sharing your story and listening to their story

Managing the conversation

Managing potential reactions from both yourself and others
How to agree or agree to disagree

Mini-case studies

Action Planning

Course Approach

CHALLENGE

How people think about what a difficult conversation is
Current bad habits that may trigger flashpoints in themselves or others

CREATE

Environments more conducive to having successful difficult conversations
Mental shortcuts to help prepare for unexpected difficult conversations

CHANGE

How leaders prepare both practically and empathetically
How leaders may manage themselves in these difficult situations

Embedding Success

Post programme activities to support the transfer of learning and building of habits

CHALLENGE

Reflect on recent difficult conversations.

How well have they run.

What has led to successes or unintended outcomes?

What can you learn from this?

CREATE

Reflect on a recent conversation that did not go well.

What reactions did you or the other person have.

How would you manage this differently now?

How might you choose to follow up on this conversation?

CHANGE

Think of a difficult conversation you need to have.

How will you empathetically prepare for this conversation?

What flashpoints or reactions might occur?

How can you plan for this?

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