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Managers and employees need to have meaningful conversations. In professional collaborations, the reluctance to engage in challenging conversations can unravel the threads that bind a team together.

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Many of the people I coach tell me, “If the conversation is difficult, people don’t open up to me.” I then ask, “How are you listening?” Source: lozochka/Dollarphotoclub Time is NOT the greatest gift ...

These six books can help ease tensions. By Louisa Kamps Earlier in my career, I worked for a hot-tempered woman who, according to an office rumor, had thrown a shoe at one of my predecessors. Rattled ...