Speaking

Making the hard call

What the waiting costs, and how to stop.

Every leader has one. Maybe it’s the long-time employee who isn’t keeping up anymore, or the partner conversation that keeps sliding to next quarter. You know what needs to happen. You’ve known for months.

You want to be nice; who knows how it will go if you rock the boat. But the team saw the problem long before you did, and they’ve been working around it ever since. The cost shows up in their trust, and in your sleep.

In this session, we’ll look at why hard calls wait so long and how to make one you can stand behind a year from now.

Key topics we’ll explore

  • The stories leaders tell themselves to justify waiting, and how to question them
  • Counting the real cost of a decision you haven’t made yet
  • Separating the decision from the conversation, so one doesn’t stall the other
  • Having the hard conversation with your values intact

Attendees will leave having named the hard call they’ve been putting off, with a date to make it.

Formats: a 45-minute lunch talk or breakout session, or a longer workshop.

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