70% of workers completely avoid difficult conversations at work. Seventy percent. That’s basically everybody. And if you’re playing the odds, that includes you.

You sit in the meetings. You never address the issues. You think you’re being diplomatic. You’re actually being a conflict avoider, and your team feels every single one of those unspoken truths.

There are three reasons people dodge tough conversations: fear of conflict, a need to be liked, or a lack of confidence in how to do it. In this episode, I unpack all three, plus the 6-step process that turns hard conversations into the simple ones they should have been all along.

🎧 Press play. There are no saber-toothed tigers in here. Just the conversation you’ve been avoiding.

In this episode:

▶ The 70% statistic and why you’re almost certainly one of them
▶ Fear of conflict, and the saber-toothed tiger your brain made up
▶ Need to be liked, and why avoiding the conversation actually makes people like you less
▶ Lack of confidence, and the 5 most common mistakes to avoid
▶ The XYZ method: a one-sentence move that takes the heat out of any tough conversation
▶ The 6-step process for the conversation you’ve been putting off
▶ Why doing this correctly increases respect, not the opposite

If you’ve been telling yourself you’ll handle it next week (for the last two months), this one’s for you.

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Show Notes

[00:00] Introduction
[00:41] Difficult Conversations At Work
[01:43] The Tough Part of Tough Conversations
[03:11] Avoiding Tough Conversations Because Of A Fear Of Conflict
[04:47] Avoiding Tough Conversations Due To A Need To Be Liked
[05:31] Avoiding Tough Conversations Due To A Lack Of Confidence
[07:07] How To Have Hard Conversations
[10:15] The Tough Conversation Is In Your Hands. Or Mouth. Whatever.

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