Difficult Conversations in Difficult Times

Do you have to communicate tough messages to your staff? Having to prepare for the hardest conversations you've ever had?

Attend this course to prepare yourself for these situations and ensure your approach is both professional and maintains long term relationships with your team. Learn how to get through to people and manage conflict, from techniques used by FBI negotiators.

This training will be delivered using a hands-on approach through roleplays and case studies developed during the course based on your actual challenges.

You will return to your workplace with a practical set of tools and methods that can be applied to any difficult conversation.

Key outcomes

Attending this workshop will be a valuable opportunity to capitalize on the trainer's well rounded experience and in-depth knowledge. By the end of this course, participants will:

• Know how to prepare for any tough conversation
• Practice using the "Persuasion Cycle" model
• Be able to listen for the unsaid and address it
• Be able to deliver difficult feedback with challenging people
• Understand their own "conflict mode" and how to best deal with other conflict behaviors
• Apply their learning to 'end of service' and other difficult conversations

Who should attend?

This course is valuable for anyone that manages teams, is responsible for managing feedback or has to communicate tough messages to staff:

• Department heads
• New managers
• HR professionals
• Professionals within fast changing environments

Topics covered

• Agreement on difficult conversations to focus on; our experience of these
• The persuasion cycle
• Lessons from the FBI
• Work performance feedback
• Defining conflict
• Situations that breed conflict
• The toughest conversation
• Final role plays
• Action planning