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• Difficult Conversations

  How to Discuss What Matters Most

  Stone, Douglas, 1958-

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  From the Harvard Negotiation Project, this book provides a step-by-step approach to having tough conversations with less stress and more success. You'll learn how to: decipher the underlying structure of every difficult conversation; start a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crucial Conversations

  Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

  Grenny, Joseph,

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  Keep your cool and get the results you want when faced with crucial conversations. This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever. Crucial Conversations…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Next Conversation

  Argue Less, Talk More

  Fisher, Jefferson,

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  From communication expert Jefferson Fisher, the definitive book on making your next conversation the one that changes everything. No matter who you're talking to, The Next Conversation gives you immediately actionable strategies and phrases that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deep Listening

  Transform Your Relationships With Family, Friends, and Foes

  Kasriel, Emily,

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  Distracted by our own agenda, we so often hear without understanding, impatiently waiting for our turn to speak. In this exploration of transformational listening, Kasriel shows how shifting from surface-level exchanges to Deep Listening can enrich…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race

  Practical Tools for Necessary Change in the Workplace and Beyond

  Christian, Kwame,

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  Founder and CEO of the American Negotiation Institute, Christian delivers critical lessons on engaging in constructive conversations about race. Dividing the content into sections focusing on the problem, the solution, and taking action, Christian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Colorful Connections

  12 Questions About Race That Open Healthy Conversations

  Dalton-Smith, Saundra, 1973-

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  Saundra Dalton-Smith and Lori Stanley Roeleveld—two women of different races who didn't know each other well before this project—believe there's a clear path to meaningful discussion about racism with someone of a different skin color. Instead of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dare to Lead

  Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts

  Brown, Brené,

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  When we dare to lead, we don’t pretend to have the right answers; we stay curious and ask the right questions. We don’t see power as finite and hoard it; we know that power becomes infinite when we share it with others. We don’t avoid difficult…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 101 Tough Conversations to Have With Employees

  a Manager's Guide to Addressing Performance, Conduct, and Discipline Challenges

  Falcone, Paul

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  101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees offers realistic sample dialogues managers can use to facilitate clear, direct interactions with their employees, helping them sidestep potential awkwardness and meet issues head-on. This practical,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Discomfort Zone

  How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs

  Reynolds, Marcia

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  Leaders, coaches, and mentors are charged with helping others to stretch their limits. However, few people enjoy hearing the messy—and sometimes painful—feedback it takes to overcome a personal obstacle. Marcia Reynolds shows how to use the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen

  the Essential Conversations You Need to Have With Your Kids Before They Start High School - and How (best) to Have Them

  Icard, Michelle,

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  Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen will explain the why and how of the fourteen surprising but essential conversations parents should have with their child before he or she enters high school. Icard shares the guiding principles for successful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Help Your Child With Worry and Anxiety

  Activities and Conversations to Help Your 4 to 11 Year Old

  Callaghan Lauren

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  A practical book for parents and carers to help them navigate parenting a child experiencing worry and anxiety. Clinical psychologist Dr Lauren Callaghan provides a clear explanation of child anxiety, and gives you activities, conversation starters,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The School of Hard Talks

  How to Have Real Conversations With Your (almost Grown) Kids

  Kline, Emily (Clinical psychologist),

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  Clinical psychologist and parent-child relationship specialist Dr. Emily Kline offers a set of five easy-to-learn, clinically proven techniques to improve communication between young adults and their parents. Based in a methodology known as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk

  How to Have Essential Conversations With Your Parents About Their Finances

  Huddleston, Cameron,

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  Learn conversation starters and strategies to open the lines of communication about your parents' finances. Discover the essential financial and legal information you should gather from your parents to be prepared for the future. Gain insight from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Conversation

  a Revolutionary Plan for End-of-life Care

  Volandes, Angelo, 1971-

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  The question How do you want to live? must be posed to the seriously ill because they deserve to choose. Through the stories of six patients and six very different end-of-life experiences, Volandes explores the trajectory of events and treatments…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eight Dates

  Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

  Gottman, John Mordechai

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  Strengthen and deepen your love with a fun, ingenious program of eight life-changing conversations on essential topics such as money, sex, and trust from two of the world's leading marriage researchers and clinicians.

• Everybody Fights

  So Why Not Get Better at It?

  Holderness, Kim,

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  Married couple Kim and Penn Holderness, hosts of The Holderness Family Podcast, share examples from their "fight fails" and strategies for fighting less frequently and having a happier marriage. The Holdernesses emphasize that, while they are not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sex Talks

  the Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life

  Marin, Vanessa,

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  Demonstrating how to actually talk about sex, a sex therapist and her husband cover the five essential conversations every couple needs to have, sharing their successful advice and tried-and-tested tools for creating an extraordinary sex life.