Before You Say ItThe BYSI Journal
Hard conversations, on purpose.
A field guide for saying what you mean, hearing what comes back, and staying with the conversation.
Hard conversations
5 articles
Hard conversations
How to say the hard thing without starting the same fight
You came in for Thursday pickup. Two minutes later you are offering to drop it. Keep the first sentence.
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Hard conversations
Why couples fight about dishes
The sink is the exhibit. The charge is that you still have the list. Help is not the same as ownership.
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Hard conversations
Start with why this conversation matters
The decision is in paragraph four. Open with the deadline instead of a warmup.
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Hard conversations
“We need to talk” already ended it
Their face drops before there is a topic. Name Saturday and a time instead.
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Hard conversations
Don’t put five years in sentence two
Thursday cannot carry 2019 through last week. The montage will get the defense. Pickup will not.
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