How to Have a Difficult Conversation With Your Boss |

Tips for how to approach and navigate a difficult conversation with your boss.
A “difficult conversation” can be a myriad of things; challenging feedback for your boss, or about your job, or about a coworker, etc. It's anything that feels like it could be emotionally high stakes or dicey because you don’t know how they will respond, which causes you to be fearful or have anxiety about their reaction or the outcome because it could have potentially negative consequences.
A challenging situation, especially if it's feedback about them, and especially with bosses who aren't great leaders. These tips and this approach will work for any boss, but are especially useful for bosses who are difficult to have difficult conversations with. Here's some advice for making the conversation as smooth & easy as possible no matter what kind of boss they are.
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Hi Galen, I like that you mention experience based language. I find it hard to respond if a team member say "everyone feels this way" or "all of us don't like this particular thing" Now, that may be true, but I want to listen to the person in front of me, and not assume what other people think or feel. When a team member uses the "everyone" phrases, I also find it frustrating becase this tells me everyone has been talking about "the thing" but never actually telling the person who can make the changes (me). I can't fix what I don't know. On my side of things, I want to be able to sit back and listen, and if I am saying anything at all its "tell me more about that" so they feel heard. thanks again for all you do! Bellingham Doggos appreciate you. Angela