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‘Difficult conversations’ are even more difficult than we thought!

Posted
September 10, 2015
Employment Law

If you haven’t seen this already, you might want to have a look at the conclusions reached by The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) as a result of some recent research that they conducted.  They found that British people find it harder to have a difficult conversation at work than to break off a romantic relationship.  This seems bizarre, doesn’t it?  Yet it has the ring of truth about it.  I regularly talk to clients who have put off and put off a difficult conversation at work, presumably in the hope that the problem would go away.  The fact that they are talking to me suggests that it hasn’t.  Indeed, there is always the possibility that the problem has actually got worse.

What can we do to help?

Never ones to just sit on our hands, we at stevensdrake solicitors are currently devising a new free training session aimed at addressing the challenges associated with difficult conversations.  If you or your line managers would benefit from this sort of training, then contact us at employment@stevensdrake.com  We have already received a number of enquires about this training session, so it looks like this topic really resonates with people!

By the way, if you want to read about the CMI’s research in more detail, here’s the link that you need: http://www.managers.org.uk/difficultconversations?utm_source=linkedin-group&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Difficult_Conversations

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