Occasionally I run into someone who feels super confident about handling the toughest conversations.

But for every person I've met like that, there seems to be a hundred of us who struggle at some level with handling difficult conversations

the way we really want to. On this episode, Kwame Christian is back to help us all find confidence in conflict.

This is Coaching for Leaders episode 380.

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't

born, they're made, and this weekly show gives you access to the practical wisdom that

will empower you to become a better leader.

Every leader finds themselves in the midst of conflict.

If not on a daily basis, certainly regularly, and of course, I think it goes without saying,

virtually every leader on a daily basis, certainly finds themselves in situations where they

need to influence and need to have outcomes from conversations.

It is a constant challenge and it is worth all of us getting better at this.

I am thrilled to welcome back to the show today's guest who is going to help us to find

confidence and conflict and also give us some useful frameworks to think about handling conflict

effectively.

Kwame Christian is a business lawyer and the director of the American Negotiation

Institute where he leads workshops designed to make difficult conversations easier.

As an attorney and mediator with graduate degrees in both public policy and law, he brings a unique multidisciplinary approach to the topic of conflict management and negotiation. His TEDx talk, finding confidence in of Conflict TED Talk on the topic of conflict in 2017. He also hosts the top

negotiation podcast in the country, negotiate anything, and he's the author of

the new book, Nobody Will Play With Me, Hot How to find confidence in conflict.

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