Most of us dread and avoid difficult conversations, especially in the workplace. The need for them, however, seems to...
Effective Strategies for Difficult Conversations in the Workplace
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Essential Conversations
Help your managers turn difficult conversations into Essential Conversations
When leaders or HR managers walk through the office and feel tension, it’s a concern. Has there been a confrontation?...
How to be a better leader: Top leadership skills & habits
It’s possible for good leaders to learn to be great. How? By learning some key leadership skills and habits. In this...
Practical approaches to avoid poor performance from your team
One of the harder aspects of leadership is effectively dealing with poor performance. It might be that a team member...
How to have a performance conversation (today)
We’ve talked before about how to turn difficult conversations into essential conversations. You know, the times when...
Why do leaders avoid the truth?
Most organizations will say they invest in their people, and that may be true. They pay for training, they offer...
How to Apologize
Asana, our project management software company, recently published a blog post called, “How to Say Sorry at Work” that...
5 EASY ways to boost employee morale
It’s hard to keep a constant eye on employee morale when you’re juggling a million other things that are seemingly...
How to shift from directive leadership to decisive leadership
Making decisions is an art. Making them fast, with grace - style even - is something that leaders everywhere aspire to...
Do your organization’s vision and values really line up?
At Padraig, we work with a lot of leaders. Sometimes they lead a unit or a group of frontline staff within their...
How to turn difficult conversations into Essential Conversations
Have you ever had occasions at the office where you knew you had to confront someone and you were avoiding it? Maybe...
Are your conversations Typical, or Courageous?
What is a Courageous Conversation? We're about to launch a series of workshops at Padraig that help our clients have...