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Feature Article: Handling Difficult Conversations |
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Practical Tips: Stay Visible |
Handling Difficult Conversations
As a manager, part of your job is having difficult conversations—with clients, direct reports, and your management—and yet few people handle this situation well. Most people avoid these conversations, which usually compounds the problem. However, with planning, these conversations can become more manageable and less emotionally loaded.
Recognize that focusing on your own anxiety or fears about the upcoming conversation only makes things worse. Managing your emotions is the key to success.
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What you can become you are already.
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Practical Tips: Stay Visible
It is very easy to get so consumed by the day-to-day responsibilities of your position that you forget that part of your job is to stay top-of-mind with influencers both internally and externally. It doesn’t have to take a lot of time but it needs to be (or become!) a habit.
Keep a high profile in your field.
You can do so by participating in associations, contributing articles, blog posts, or expertise to your trade publications, participating in panel discussions, and engaging with industry thought leaders.
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