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How to Tackle Difficult Conversations

Date

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Tuesday 11 March, 2025 , 09:30 12:30

Sessions

This course consists of one half-day online session.

Venue

Zoom, Teams, or similar
01332 460 890

Tickets

Tickets

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Single delegate for online delivery of "How to Tackle Difficult Conversations" on Tuesday 11th March 2025 (#7555.7561)
£ 99.00

Outline

Overview

Have you been putting off having a difficult conversation with someone in your team? Do you need help building your confidence to address a challenging situation? Are you anxious that the reaction or outcome might not be as expected?

As humans, it’s natural for us to feel uneasy about confrontation, but you’re not alone – many managers share the same fears. If you’re looking for guidance on how to navigate through the process of having a difficult conversation, then this workshop is for you.

You’ll learn practical ways to acknowledge and overcome your own barriers and discover how best to prepare for and structure a difficult conversation to help you feel calm, courageous and in control.

We will share our top tips on how you can foster an open and honest culture in your workplace, ultimately building trust and respect amongst your colleagues and equipping you with the skills to manage emotions and deliver constructive feedback confidently.

Audience

This course is aimed at people that manage others.

Objectives

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

  • Identify the need for a difficult conversation by recognising certain behaviours
  • Confidently deal with your own apprehension about a conversation
  • Use a simple framework for structuring a conversation
  • Give non-judgmental, effective feedback based on facts

Content

  • How to structure a difficult conversation
  • How to foster an open and honest culture in the workplace
  • Delivering constructive feedback confidently

Resources

We will provide you with a PDF of the workshop slides, copies of relevant handouts and a list of book recommendations discussed during the session!

Testimonials

Fantastic training programme – I’d recommend Annie and Loates Business Solutions to anyone!

Thanks to the superb ongoing training undertaken by Annie Litchfield (MCIPD) at Loates Business Solutions Ltd. Our senior leadership team have found the management development programme to be of real benefit already, and we’ve only just completed session number two! Annie has a brilliant, involved and fun way of making you think on many levels, bringing multi-tiered benefits to the management of the business and leaving no stone unturned when it comes to addressing possible difficult self analysis. The structure of the training also fits perfectly with our own Esker philosophy of always looking to establish a positive-sum growth in all areas of the business and beyond! I’m already looking forward to the next one ?

Sam Townsend
Head of Marketing
Derby

Boosted my spirit and made me laugh lots!

I have attended numerous training sessions with Annie and always find her to be an engaging and relevant trainer. My last session on ‘How to rebuild employee trust and morale’ was a worthwhile couple of hours that boosted my spirit and made me laugh lots! Now I am looking to see what other sessions you offer!

Karen Stevens
Director
GOBBYCOW Ltd
Ilkeston

Very understanding and knowledgeable

Hi I really enjoyed this course and the course trainer is very understanding and knowledgeable. It was very nice to talk to people outside my work with no judgement. I felt free to talk to Annie. The only critic I have is the course was a bit short I could be on that course for the whole day and get more out of it although i have learned a great deal with the course. I intend to have more courses like this one in the future. A big thank you to Annie.

Manoj Jagroo
Supervisor
Shepshed, Loughborough

Comprehensive and enjoyable

Sarah provided us with two very comprehensive and enjoyable management training days, designed to further develop the skills of our Line Managers.
The course content and learning styles needed were varied and interactive, encouraging us to work independently and in small groups.
Everyone enjoyed the days and we would definitely use Loates Management Training again for future training needs. Thank you!

Helen Brown
Business Manager
West Bridgford, Nottingham

Fantastic

Annie is a fantastic trainer, her content and input is always insightful and practical and I look forward to courses with her. These courses have boosted my confidence as a new manager.

Zoe Burden
Library Manager
Merton

Questions?

Not sure if this is the right course for you?

Just get in touch to arrange an informal chat with the course instructor themselves!

Instructor

Annie Litchfield delivering leadership & management training

Annie Litchfield

Throughout my training career (which now spans more than 20 years!) I’ve always been chasing the same dream: to feed my passion for helping others. I aim to bring a vibrancy and exuberance no matter what my role is – from small, family run businesses to multi-national corporations, my experience covers a whole host of sectors and sizes.

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Venue

Darley Abbey Mills

Online Delivery

Broadcasting live and direct from our dedicated online training suite at Loates HQ, or one of our well-equipped satellite studios!

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Organiser

Loates Management Training

Loates Management Training

We’re the arm of Loates Business Solutions that’s specifically focussed on people skills, management, and leadership training. Our aim is to provide everything that you need in order to develop high performing managers.

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Scheduled Delivery Dates

On-Demand Delivery

In addition to our public scheduled courses, we also offer the option of on-demand private training that’s exclusive to your organisation.

This can provide a particularly convenient and cost-effective solution if you have a large number of staff members to train.

And it’s also tremendously flexible.

Since on-demand courses only have your delegates attending, we can customise them to be specific to the policies and processes of your organisation, and tailor course lengths and depths to suit your particular needs. Likewise, we can combine material from several existing courses, develop fully bespoke content, or combine multiple courses into full programmes of training.

And we can deliver this training whenever and wherever is best for you; in-house at your venue, at one of our training venues, somewhere else entirely, online, or any combination of these.

For an idea of the types of on-demand training that we can provide, just take a look at our on-demand training catalogue.

To find out more about our on-demand delivery options, please contact us to arrange an informal chat with one of our friendly and down-to-earth training instructors.

On-Demand Equivalent

Please see our on-demand training catalogue