Managing Difficult Conversations
Are your managers able to have difficult conversations effectively? Do your managers dread give constructive / negative feedback to the team members?
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Course Description
Being able to deal with difficult conversations effectively is an essential business skill. Giving constructive feedback, especially negative feedback, is the most difficult task for a manager. Many often abstain for fear of the employee’s reaction. Managers need to address it appropriately to achieve the desired result and maintain the relationship. This interactive & highly practical workshop shall provide participants with valuable techniques & strategies for successfully handling difficult conversations.
Most Suitable For
Managers, Leaders, HR professionals. Especially suitable for first-time managers & aspiring managers.
Key Learning Outcomes
- Learn new strategies for handling difficult conversations effectively
- Increased ability to manage their and other’s emotions
- Skill to effectively structure difficult conversations
- Ability to leverage techniques to prepare & manage a difficult conversation
- Ability to give negative feedback
- Ability to deal with hard and awkward conversation
- Learn the basics of coaching techniques in performance feedback
Coverage
- What constitutes a difficult conversation
- Why difficult conversation – you, your team and organisation
- Value of difficult conversations
- Essentials of negative feedback
- Managing emotions
- Dealing with hard and awkward conversation
- Power of enquiry vs advocacy
- Preparation – THINK Model
- Effective coaching: handling performance problem
- Operating principles
Andragogy
- Self-reflections, individual & group practice sessions, quizzes, chat, videos, App-based activities, Q&A.
Offerings
- F2F, Live Virtual Class & Webinar mode
- X’CEL approach for highly experiential, contextualised to the client’s business context for learner delight
- Optional Customization - Duration of Programs
- Training needs analysis prior to design and delivery for maximum program value & impact
- Pick & choose from a ready list or we can create one for you
- Facilitators with 15+ yrs. experience with deep subject knowledge & specialization
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