Communication Skills
Navigating Tough Conversations

Navigating Tough Conversations

Blinks on how to face tough conversations without fear

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Communication Skills
Difficult conversations are the kind no one enjoys having. Whether we put them off until they're forced on us, or we avoid them altogether—having them is always the better solution. We've put together this collection of Blinks on how to navigate difficult conversations so that you can approach them as sources of resolution, instead of fear.

Navigating Tough Conversations

Blinks on how to face tough conversations without fear

Difficult Conversations
Difficult Conversations
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
How to Discuss What Matters Most
14 min4.0
Crucial Conversations
Crucial Conversations
Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
20 min4.1
The Discomfort Zone
The Discomfort Zone
Marcia Reynolds
How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs
13 min3.9
How to Have Impossible Conversations
How to Have Impossible Conversations
Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay
A Very Practical Guide
26 min4.4
Why Are We Yelling?
Why Are We Yelling?
Buster Benson
The Art of Productive Disagreement
23 min4.4
Talking Across the Divide
Talking Across the Divide
Justin Lee
How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Even Change the World
21 min4.2
Say What You Mean
Say What You Mean
Oren Jay Sofer
A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication
32 min4.6
What We Say Matters
What We Say Matters
Judith Hanson Lasater Ph.D., Ike K.Lasater
Practicing Nonviolent Communication
15 min4.3
Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent Communication
Marshall B. Rosenberg
A Language of Life
24 min4.5

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