Communicate better with everyone.

Communicate better with everyone. - 1 online resource. - HBR working parents series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Section 1. Listen-and be heard: have productive and balanced conversations: 4 conversations every overwhelmed working parent should have / Set boundaries, foil boundary predators, and say no / What great listeners actually do / How to listen when your communication styles don't match / Be someone that others can confide in / Section 2. Use your words -- turn adversarial conversations into civil discourse: How to make sure you're heard in a difficult conversation / 8 ways to get a difficult conversation back on track / When to skip a difficult conversation / Section 3. Mentioning the unmentionables -- tough discussions at work: Communicating through a personal crisis / When you need to take time off work for mental health reasons / Asking for an extended leave for a family issue / Section 4. Table talk -- tough discussions with your family: How to negotiate with your kids / Help your spouse cope with work stress / What you should tell your kids about finding a career / Section 5. If you can't say something nice... -- keep your self-talk positive: How to talk to yourself with compassion / Make peace with your inner critic: an interview with Tara Mohr / Epilogue. Last word: Being a parent made me a better manager, and vice versa / by Joseph Grenny and Brittney Maxfield -- by Priscilla Claman -- by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman -- by Mark Goulston -- by Deborah Grayson Riegel -- by Amy Gallo -- by Monique Valcour -- by Deborah Grayson Riegel -- by Sabina Nawaz -- by Barbara Ricci -- by Denise M. Rousseau -- by Mary (molly) Kern and Terri R. Kurtzberg -- by Rebecca Knight -- by James M. Citrin -- by Alice Boyes -- by Sarah Green Carmichael -- by Jelena Zikic.

"Talk to your toddler, your teen, your caregiver, your boss, your partner, yourself. There are days in every working parent's life when it feels like you're screaming into the wind. The days when you have to ask your childless boss if you can leave work early-again-for a kid issue. The days your kid tearfully asks why you have to get on an airplane for work when you just got home. The days you simmer with resentment because you can't find the right words to have a productive conversation with your partner about the division of labor at home. The days you tell yourself you're failing everyone-including yourself. Each of us has days where we struggle to communicate effectively at home and at work. But we can have fewer days like that and more productive conversations. We can listen and be heard. In Communicate Better with Everyone, experts provide answers to the challenges you face as a working parent, from negotiating your schedule and workload with your boss to connecting with your teen without nagging or lecturing to talking to yourself with more compassion. You'll learn to: conduct more productive conversations, set boundaries and stick to them, ask better questions, see issues from the other person's perspective, navigate difficult issues"--



9781647820848

2020054251


Interpersonal communication.
Business communication.
Work and family.
Work-life balance.
Parenting.


Electronic Books.

HM1166 / .C666 2021