What I love about an approach like Dr Bradberry has suggested is that if you know that conflict isn’t really your thing – you can try some of these out. You can practise. Almost always that will be better than remaining passively silent or losing it to aggression.
The first thing to say is that mankind has been behaving badly since time began. It’s now just more obvious because we’re exposed to other people’s stories through social and other sources of media. You know when you buy a yellow car, how suddenly all you’re seeing are yellow cars? We see what we focus on, so if you start looking for idiots, that’s what you’ll find.
“Radical candor is humble, it’s helpful, it’s immediate, it’s in person — in private if it’s criticism and in public if it’s praise — and it doesn’t personalize.”
Of all the questions I get asked about managing people, this one would have to be at the top of the list. “How do I
So the thing about feedback is that we often think of our own discomfort in giving it. It feels awkward, uncomfortable. We worry what the
It’s a tricky thing this communicating thing. As humans, we are wired to avoid conflict. And given that most of us are decent human beings,
How to have the uncomfortable discussion Today I witnessed not one, but two instances where people chose to have a conversation that they knew would
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