
Mastering Difficult Conversations with Sheila Heen, Deputy Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School
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Mastering difficult conversations involves going beyond your own perspective to understand what each person in the conversation sees, feels, and leaves unspoken. Sheila Heen and I discuss how.
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Here's what we cover in this episode:
- The three layers of a difficult conversation
- What workplace problems often originate from
- Why owning your contribution to the problem up front is the best way to avoid the blame game
- How to prepare to have a difficult conversation
- Why having difficult conversations isn’t a bad thing
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