Conversations Worth Having Blog

Has this ever happened to you?

1. The conversation in your head: I am so angry. I'm overworked and under valued. I'm tired of this and I'm done trying to be nice. 
2. The next conversation you have with
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The Monday Kickstarter group put on their positive framing hats this week to address the following challenge: A client had expressed that many of the managers were tired of having conversations about ...

In today’s Kickstarter session, a participant shared that engagement numbers in her organization had decreased significantly following recent changes and the hiring of a number of new staff. Charged w...

The challenge in today’s Kickstarter session arose from leadership’s realization that the organization was completely stuck and unable to move forward.

Initial generative questions to gain more conte...

Can you imagine your manager saying this to you after you’ve tried to initiate a conversation worth having? Unfortunately, this is an all-too-familiar situation for many people, especially for one per...

Imagine. Each week you participate in a two-hour weekly meeting with a team that is responsible for strengthening community and fostering well-being, and one person dominates the entire conversation. ...

Monday Kickstarters is a working session to help us figure out how to have a conversation worth having when faced with a tough situation, challenge, or problem. What follows are two topics we reimagin...

Monday Kickstarters gives participants an opportunity to raise challenging conversation topics or situations and work with others to turn them into conversations worth having! In this blog, we look at...

In the face of climate change, polarization, and global volatility, the U.S. government is rolling back laws that protect the environment and people. But . . . Why do we need the government to tell us...

Have you ever wanted to have a conversation with someone, in fact, it really needed to happen, but you kept avoiding it because you were afraid of how the other person was going to react? That’s the s...