I raise a problem with someone within a day or two of noticing it.

Kindness delayed is a harder conversation later.

The feedback you’re saving for the review.

Hard Conversations is a free self-test from Coach42 for managers. You answer 14 questions, from 1 (never) to 5 (always), about what you do when there’s feedback to give or a problem to raise. You get your main conflict style and a second one, out of five styles of our own, each with its strength, its trade-off and one move.

Drafted with AI for Jay Sampat, Chief Mirror Holder · coach review pending

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