Difficult Conversations


Difficult conversations helps your people have conversations that are needed; and have them fairly, constructively and respectfully.

This approach builds people´s capacity to address difficult issues and maintain important business relationships.

Our aim is to help you initiate constructive discussions on difficult issues in the face of strong feelings whilst maintaining respect, both ways, and reaching better outcomes.

This can be any business or professional conversation; with staff, colleagues, managers, clients, customers, suppliers or partners.

Conversations can be about: performance, motivation, pay, compliance, feedback, behaviour, development, personal or professional boundaries, equality and diversity issues, growth and potential.

We can coach you through a difficult conversation, train your staff, offer practical workshops on live issues for people, or directly facilitate a difficult conversation in person or over the phone. This approach helps keep business on track, even when emotions are running high and relationships feel strained.

This service can help people

  • Feel more confident and in control in difficult situations
  • Recognise that avoiding difficult conversations can limit the information available for problem solving and business decisions
  • Deepen and broaden the ability to communicate
  • Develop the ability to collaborate
  • Strengthen relationships through tackling weak spots linked to areas of avoidance
  • Dispose of the negative energy linked to unresolved issues and the time consuming drain of indirect communication
  • Recognise that better communication improves collaboration which, in turn, increases the resources available for mutual gains.

Contact us with a specific issue and let´s get started.

Not sure where to start? Let´s talk and see what we can offer.