by Julia Menard | Jun 21, 2024 | Health
It’s been remarkable these last few months to teach three teams the How to Have Difficult Conversations model. Individuals on these teams have created their own relationship with the material as they worked to make the tools and skills their own. One such...
by Julia Menard | May 23, 2024 | Health
Recently, I decided to do a small experiment. I wanted to take what I know to be true about conflict management and how to have difficult conversations and see how it fits into what exemplary leaders do. Kouzes & Posner have studied exemplary leadership for over...
by Julia Menard | Apr 23, 2024 | Health
“We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.” … Mary Parker Follett As I catch snippets and shards...
by Julia Menard | Mar 25, 2024 | Health
A short news story caught my attention recently. President Biden was seen on his way to Camp David peace talks with Bill Ury’s newest book “Possible” under his arm. Bill Ury is a big name in my world. He co-wrote the book “Getting to Yes” – the primer for...
by Julia Menard | Feb 24, 2024 | Health
Recently, one of my favourite kind of leaders, the savvy kind, decided he wanted to invest in his team by doing my Difficult Conversations course. They talked about doing it together, over a series of weeks, with my support to help with integration and application. As...
by Julia Menard | Jan 25, 2024 | Health
Who do you want to BE in conflict? When someone else does something that hits you as wrong, or challenging, threatening – how do you want to be in response? Do you want to be: Defended? Assertive? Aggressive? Do you want to be: Kind? Forgiving? Accommodating? In the...
