How to Have (Better) Difficult Conversations

Uncomfortable, high-stakes, or just plain hard conversations are a fact of life. Sharing negative editorial feedback, giving performance evaluations, or firing someone are all types of discussions we might need to hold as journalists. While I can't promise these conversations won't still be difficult, you can come to them feeling more confident and prepared with a few tips from the pros.

Building on research from Bruce Patton, Douglas Stone, and Sheila Heen; Kim Scott; and Brené Brown, this webinar hosted by Alysha Love is designed to help you uncover your own conflict management style and discover ways to have better hard discussions.

• What makes difficult conversations so hard
• Ways to identify how you address conflict
• Tactics you can use for better conversations when the stakes are high

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Speaker

• An editor, accredited professional coach, and incurable journalist, Alysha Love heads up her editorial agency, Payette Media House, and coaching business, Alysha Love Coaching, from beautiful Boise, Idaho. She spent years working in digital political journalism in Washington, D.C., as an editor at CNN and POLITICO. She was an editor at the Idaho Statesman, then branched into content marketing at Intuit QuickBooks. Alysha has her master's degree in leadership and organizational development from the University of Texas and degrees in both psychology and journalism from the University of Missouri.
  Alysha is a volunteer coach with Digital Women Leaders and vice president for finance of ACES: The Society for Editing.