# difficult conversations
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4:20How to prepare for a difficult meetingLeanne Elliott: How do you prepare for what people might see as a difficult meeting? Mamie Kanfer Stewart: When you have a difficult meeting, you should do all the normal things you should do to prepare for a meeting, buEP 241 · 16 Oct 2025·interview· 4:20–6:5241:00Workplace Surgery: Letting someone go who's trying their bestAl Elliott: This one's a bit of a sad one. What do you do when you know you have to let someone go even though they're trying their best to stay? So this person writes, I've got an employee who was put on a PIP. That staEP 238 · 7 Oct 2025·workplace surgery· 41:00–46:5630:16The Content-Pattern-Relationship framework for difficult conversationsAl Elliott: Have you got any kind of like guidelines for someone who might have to have a difficult conversation with one of their employees coming up? Amy Bouque: I have borne witness to some of the most extraordinarilyEP 233 · 18 Sept 2025·interview· 30:16–34:3226:43When to have the uncomfortable conversationLeanne Elliott: When do we need to maybe sit down more formally and have an uncomfortable conversation? Experts Kathleen Troyer: I think Liz, Liz kind of spoke to it earlier. You know, how disruptive is the, is the situaEP 137 · 17 Oct 2024·panel interview· 26:43–33:1742:59Can you avoid difficult conversations by choosing the right company?Leanne Elliott: So far, we've talked about how to have difficult conversations, but can you actually avoid them altogether if an organization is more aligned to your values? Liz Bronson: We also, in both the UK and here,EP 137 · 17 Oct 2024·panel interview· 42:59–45:27
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