boardroomAs a leader you will most likely have to deliver a tough message or difficult news at some time or another. And I’m often asked how to do it without causing other problems bigger than the original problem itself.

Learning the skills to doing this well is like making a big pot of homemade soup – there are a bunch of necessary skills –

  • Communication skills
  • Conflict skills
  • Influencing skills
  • Feedback skills

And after you have all the ingredients, it all needs to be simmered in the broth of confidence.

I say homemade, because there isn’t a perfect recipe, but there are principles and ingredients that must be merged with situation and your particular style.

If you want to communicate difficult decisions honestly all the while gaining support from your team and maintaining morale and engagement, you need a master chef to help you create this successfully.

Enter Guy Harris, Master Coach and Communication Chef.

On April 9th he will lead a focused and targeted teleseminar, We Have To Talk: Announcing Unpopular Decisions without Destroying Morale, that will help you create this soup and give you the confidence to make it work.

You’ll learn how to break tough news delicately, manage difficult situations effectively and gain buy-in and support from your staff.

This teleseminar is available live, via recording, or both – so you can listen and re-listen, share it with other leaders in your organization and more.

Focused skills, in a relevant and practical one hour learning experience. Join Guy for just that on April 9th.

Get all of the details, and register here.

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Kevin Eikenberry is a recognized world expert on leadership development and learning and is the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group. He has spent over 30 years helping organizations across North America, and leaders from around the world, on leadership, learning, teams and teamwork, communication and more.

Twice he has been named by Inc.com as one of the Top 100 Leadership and Management Experts in the World and 100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference. The American Management Association named him a “Leaders to Watch” and he has been twice named as one of the World's Top 30 Leadership Professionals by Global Gurus. Top Sales World has named him a Top Sales & Marketing Influencer several times, and his blog has been named on many “best of” lists. LeadersHum has named him one of the 200 Biggest Voices in Leadership in 2023.

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  1. The biggest challenge in sharing tough messages is that many leaders do not appropriately include stakeholders in the decision-making process.

    If people know you have a hard decision to make, if their opinion is solicited, and if they know the possible outcomes before the announcement—everything will go much more smoothly.

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