Search query: difficult conversations

Product: How to Have That Difficult Conversation: Gaining the Skills for Honest and Meaningful Communication
Description: Full of practical tips and how-tos, this audiobook will help you make your relationships better, deepen your intimacy with people you care for, and cultivate more love, understanding, and respect between you and others.

Successful people confront well. They know that setting healthy boundaries improves relationships and can solve important problems. They have discovered that uncomfortable situations can be avoided or resolved through direct conversation. But most of us don't know how to have difficult conversations, and we see confrontation as scary or adversarial.

Authors Henry Cloud and John Townsend take the principles from their award-winning and best-selling book, Boundaries, and apply them to a variety of the most common difficult situations and relationships in order to:

Show how healthy confrontation can improve relationships

Present the essentials of a good boundary-setting conversation

Provide tips on preparing for the conversation

Show how to tell people what you want, stop bad behavior, and deal with counterattack

Give actual examples of conversations to have with your spouse, your date, your kids, your coworker, your parents, and more!

This audiobook is a practical handbook on positive confrontation that will help you finally have that difficult conversation you've been avoiding.

A discussion guide is included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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Product: 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees: A Manager's Guide to Addressing Performance, Conduct, and Discipline Challenges
Description: This second edition of the best-selling guide by top human resources author Paul Falcone provides guidance for managers, including sample dialogues for how to broach uncomfortable conversations across a wide range of issues.

Inappropriate workplace conduct, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, productivity and communication issues...these are just a few of the uncomfortable topics bosses must sometimes discuss with their employees. 101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees offers realistic sample dialogues managers can use to facilitate clear, direct interactions with their employees, helping to sidestep potential awkwardness and meet issues head-on.

This practical, solution-oriented audiobook walks listeners through some of the most common - as well as the most serious - employee problems they are likely to encounter. While covering everything from substandard performance reviews to progressive disciplinary warnings and termination meetings, the second edition of this best-selling resource offers listeners 20 new scenarios covering current hot-button issues like FMLA abuse and ADA accommodations, wage and hour challenges, team turnarounds, and compensation conflicts.

This handy guide helps managers treat their people with dignity and respect, focusing not just on what to say but also on how to say it. It provides proven techniques managers can use to protect themselves and their organizations - and get the very best from their people.
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Product: How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide
Description: "This is a self-help book on how to argue effectively, conciliate, and gently persuade. The authors admit to getting it wrong in their own past conversations. One by one, I recognize the same mistakes in me. The world would be a better place if everyone read this book." (Richard Dawkins, author of Science in the Soul and Outgrowing God)

In our current political climate, it seems impossible to have a reasonable conversation with anyone who has a different opinion. Whether you're online, in a classroom, an office, a town hall - or just hoping to get through a family dinner with a stubborn relative - dialogue shuts down when perspectives clash. Heated debates often lead to insults and shaming, blocking any possibility of productive discourse. Everyone seems to be on a hair trigger.

In How to Have Impossible Conversations, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay guide you through the straightforward, practical, conversational techniques necessary for every successful conversation - whether the issue is climate change, religious faith, gender identity, race, poverty, immigration, or gun control. Boghossian and Lindsay teach the subtle art of instilling doubts and opening minds. They cover everything from learning the fundamentals for good conversations to achieving expert-level techniques to deal with hardliners and extremists. This book is the manual everyone needs to foster a climate of civility, connection, and empathy.
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Product: Difficult Conversations Just for Women: Kill the Anxiety. Get What You Want.
Description: “From the very first chapter, readers will know that they have stumbled onto something valuable.” —Publisher’s Weekly
“The title of this book may lure readers into checking it out, but they won’t be disappointed.” —Reader’s Favorite

Would you be happy if you could kill your anxiety, confidently ask for what you want, and get it? Would your life be better if you could speak your mind and confront others without fear?

Of course!

Difficult conversations emotionally drain you. And if a woman follows generic advice implicitly written for men, it will likely backfire due to social double-standards.
Research shows that,

Assertive men are admired, but assertive women might be considered bossy (and judged more harshly).
When a man protects his turf he’s a committed leader, but if a woman does the same she’s a control freak.
When a man and a woman express the same type of negative emotions with the same intensity, she’s considered “too emotional,” while he might be “having a bad day.”
During negotiations, women more than men need to validate their requests.
Minority women suffer from double jeopardy.

For those reasons and more, women tend to make fewer requests for themselves than men do, leaving wants and needs unfulfilled. Difficult Conversations Just for Women is a book tailored for women. This is a step-by-step guide full of real-life stories (and sprinkled with humor) that tackles the challenges women face, but men don’t. Difficult Conversations Just for Women will help you speak up, resolve conflicts, and set boundaries in a healthy and successful way as a woman.
Sofia Santiago is a professional speaker, an award-winning Amazon best-selling author, and an expert in conflict management. After 10 years of listening to the stories of hundreds of women and guiding them to improve their conflict-resolution skills, Sofia has developed the powerful techniques you’ll learn in this book.
You will learn to:

Not be judged by others as passive (weak) or aggressive (bossy), but just right.
Speak you mind without fear of hurting or losing a relationship.
Lower their defenses, so they won’t turn the tables on you.
Create a script to guide you, so you know exactly what to say and how to say it during a confrontation.
Avoid critical mistakes.
And much more!

Difficult Conversations Just for Women gives you the wording, clear instructions, tried-and-true advice, and hand-holding you need to feel confident before, during, and after difficult conversations. Learn to navigate confrontations effectively as a woman!

A significant portion of the profits from the sales of this book (25%) will be donated to Families in Crises, a shelter for battered homeless women and their children.

(*) A version of this book tailored for Christian women is published as Face Difficult Conversations with God on Your Side.
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Product: Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Description: Number-one New York Times best seller.

Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.

Don’t miss the hour-long Netflix special Brené Brown: The Call to Courage!

Named one of the best books of the year by Bloomberg.

Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas and has the courage to develop that potential.

When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don’t avoid difficult conversations and situations; we lean into vulnerability when it's necessary to do good work.

But daring leadership in a culture that’s defined by scarcity, fear, and uncertainty requires skill-building around traits that are deeply and uniquely human. The irony is that we’re choosing not to invest in developing the hearts and minds of leaders at the exact same time as we’re scrambling to figure out what we have to offer that machines and AI can’t do better and faster. What can we do better? Empathy, connection, and courage, to start.

Brené Brown has spent the past two decades studying the emotions and experiences that give meaning to our lives, and the past seven years working with transformative leaders and teams spanning the globe. She found that leaders in organizations ranging from small entrepreneurial startups and family-owned businesses to nonprofits, civic organizations, and Fortune 50 companies all ask the same question:

How do you cultivate braver, more daring leaders, and how do you embed the value of courage in your culture?

In this new audiobook, Brown uses research, stories, and examples to answer these questions in the no-BS style that millions have come to expect and love. Brown writes, “One of the most important findings of my career is that daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100 percent teachable, observable, and measurable. It’s learning and unlearning that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. Easy? No. Because choosing courage over comfort is not always our default. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and our work. It’s why we’re here.”

Whether you’ve read Daring Greatly and Rising Strong or you’re new to Brené Brown’s work, this audiobook is for anyone who wants to step up and into brave leadership.
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Product: Difficult Conversations: Craft a Clear Message, Manage Emotions and Focus on a Solution
Description: You have to talk with a colleague about a fraught situation, but you're worried that they'll yell or blame you or shut down. You fear your emotions could block you from a resolution. But you can communicate in a way that's constructive - not combative.

Difficult Conversations walks you through:

Uncovering the root cause of friction

Maintaining a positive mind-set

Untangling the problem together

Agreeing on a way forward

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Advice you can quickly listen to and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives - from the most trusted source in business.
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Product: Difficult Conversations 10th (tenth) edition Text Only
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Product: Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Description: Dealing with your ex-husband, who can't seem to show up reliably for weekends with the kids; navigating a workplace fraught with office politics or racial tensions; saying "I'm sorry" or "I love you."

We all have difficult conversations, no matter how confident or competent we are. And too often, no matter what we try, things don't go well. Should you say what you're thinking and risk starting a fight? Swallow your views and feel like a doormat? Or should you let them have it? But - what if you're wrong?

Difficult Conversations shows you a way out of this dilemma; it teaches you how to handle even the toughest conversations more effectively and with less anxiety. Based on 15 years of work at Harvard Negotiation Project and consultations with thousands of people, the authors answer the question: When people confront the conversations they dread the most, what works?

Difficult Conversations walks you through a proven, concrete, step-by-step approach for understanding and conducting tough conversations. It shows you how to get ready, how to start the conversations in ways that reduce defensiveness, and how to keep the conversation on a constructive track regardless of how the other person responds.

Whether you're dealing with your baby-sitter or biggest client, your boss or your brother-in-law, Difficult Conversations can help.
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Product: The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs
Brand: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Product: Having Hard Conversations
Brand: Corwin
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Product: Managing Difficult, Frustrating, and Hostile Conversations: Strategies for Savvy Administrators
Brand: Corwin
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Product: Leading With Emotional Courage: How to Have Hard Conversations, Create Accountability, And Inspire Action On Your Most Important Work
Brand: Wiley
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Product: How to Have That Difficult Conversation You've Been Avoiding: With Your Spouse, Adult Child, Boss, Coworker, Best Friend, Parent, or Someone You're Dating
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Product: Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Brand: Penguin Books
Color: Purple
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Product: Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
Brand: McGraw-Hill Education
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Product: Talk It Out!: The Educator's Guide to Successful Difficult Conversations
Brand: Routledge
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