161: How To Address Difficult Conversations, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Careers, Management, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.

Question from Leonardo

I´m one of your fans, I listen your podcast every day and I see better results on my day job managing an emergency room in Brazilian Hospital. I’m a cardiologist and today I work as a manger also. I was listening the episode 143, about feedback, while I was driving to my job and I was thinking how difficult to me is receive a negative feedback. I think that what struggle in this situation is emotion and controlling the emotion to respond or give some excuse for that negative perception. When I give any feedback to my employees I saw this same problem. How do I train myself to be better on that?

Question from Dow

Question from Nathan

I am not currently in a “leadership” position but I feel that I am being called to leadership and feel that leadership and coaching is something that I would enjoy long term. I wanted to ask what recommendations you would have to really start moving in this direction and to start developing those skills. I’ve been trying to read books and listen to podcast to get some insight but haven’t really had the opportunity to hone these skills. I am looking at going to toastmasters to get some experience/training in public speaking to get started working on something I don’t feel I’m strong in. Do you have any recommendations of things like Toastmasters that I can check out or any suggestions on steps I could take to improve my leadership and coaching skills?

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0:00.0	On today's show how to address difficult conversations, your questions,
0:04.4	are answers and resources. This is coaching for leaders, episode 161.
0:10.3	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.
0:19.0	Greetings to you from Orange County, California.
0:21.0	This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.
0:26.7	This is a weekly coaching show to help us all be better leaders
0:31.1	through improved communication, human relations, and personal leadership.
0:36.0	And if you listen regularly, you know that once a month on the first Monday of the month,
0:41.2	we ask for questions from the coaching for leaders community. This month we had
0:46.1	solicited questions on difficult conversations and I'm so glad to welcome back to the show
0:52.0	Bonnie Stahoviac who joins us most months to respond
0:56.2	to some of these questions and Bonnie usually this is the show each month where
1:00.0	I've thought about these questions for three or four days and thought about all the different
1:05.2	ways that we could answer them and I say something that in my mind sounds okay and then you've
1:11.4	seen the questions three minutes before we get on and you say
1:15.5	something brilliant and that's why I love having you on the show.
1:19.3	Well thank you it's great to be here and I, they really resonate with me.
1:24.1	All the questions that we get every month, I think, oh, those are hard questions and
1:28.4	important questions and I'm glad people are feeling vulnerable enough to start to inquire about some of these things so I'm enjoying it although
1:36.3	We're all on a road none of us are perfect and none of us have all the answers. It's humbling to be here because there's a lot to unpack.
1:43.7	I know.
1:44.7	These are courageous leaders, people that are not just live in the status quo.
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