Managing Difficult Conversations with Colleagues and Staff

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Program Description

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Learn strategies for engaging in difficult conversations with people at work, such as giving a colleague or direct report critical feedback, approaching your manager with a concern, or even engaging a disgruntled patron. You will learn tenets of cultural humility regarding language, as well as how to assess your own communication styles in order to bring self-awareness into all conversations.

You will leave this 2-hour crash course with grounding techniques and rhetorical strategies to increase your ability to engage kindly, yet firmly, in a way that matches your values.

After you attend this crash course, you’ll be able to:

  • Understand your own communication style and how it impacts conversations and conflict at work

  • Use trauma-informed practices to ground yourself and guide conversations

  • Engage in difficult conversations with cultural humility

  • Initiate difficult conversations with confidence and a strategy for success

  • Navigate power dynamics involved in difficult conversations

 

CALL Training Partner for this Event: Library Journal

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I understand that a space will be reserved for me in this learning opportunity at a cost to CALL, and if I am unable to attend this learning opportunity, I will cancel my enrollment as soon as possible and before the start date. 

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