Conversations Worth Having Blog

“Be who I am.”
~ Jeanie Cockell

In our Conversations Worth Having Learning Lab, Jeanie Cockell, Joan McArthur-Blair, Megan Robaina, and Melissa Robaina, joined by Jackie Stavros, explored the importan...

In celebration of National Poetry at Work Day, we're sharing a delicious poem that highlights a valuable Conversations Worth Having principle. We hope you'll enjoy the poem as much as we did! Please r...

Ahh, bliss. December is here, conjuring up pleasant memories: the gentle falling of snow (admittedly, not here in Northern California yet), the cheerful greetings of friends and family, and the entici...

Zephyr Ethier begins her recent article about having conversations worth having in higher education, "On any given day in higher education, we accomplish most of our work through a series of planned o...

“We’re not dreaming nearly enough.”   Mirjam Minderman

“Have conversations to challenge the dichotomy between long-term and short-term. If we don’t take both into account, there won’t be a short t...

This week’s blog comes with a warning: The following activities might be dangerous and should not be attempted by those reading this blog. Usually said about stunts being performed by professionals, w...

“You’ll Never Walk Alone”, a song of hope from Rogers and Hammerstein’s musical Carousel, was written shortly before the end of World War II (Duddleston, 2021). Still today, the world seems rather sto...

Peak performance, ownership, and engagement are natural outcomes for people when they are included in meaningful ways around work that's purposeful. Nancy Kirkpatrick and Floyd Phillips recently share...

The ways in which we might respond to conflict are similar to how we respond to stress: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn. There’s another way to resolve conflict that’s the focus of our post today: Face...

If the focus of attention influences our beliefs and the stories we make up about people and situations (Poetic Principle), then it makes sense to talk about and pay attention to what’s working, what’...