Alissa Carpenter: ...how to have difficult and uncomfortable conversations at work

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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With many meetings taking place remotely these days, it's more challenging than ever to communicate with our co-workers in the workplace. Our guest, Alissa Carpenter, is a workplace communications expert who joins us to talk about how we can connect with our team effectively online, how to have difficult and uncomfortable conversations and why differences in gender, age, race, religion and job function are beneficial to helping the company succeed. Her book is called, "How to Listen and Be Heard: Inclusive Conversations at Work". Her website is http://www.notokthatsokcoach.com/

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0:00.0	I'm not switching my team to some fancy work platform that somehow knows exactly how we work.
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0:28.2	you'll love to use. Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:43.8	I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black.
0:46.2	Have you ever found it tough to communicate with others of a different age, race, religion, gender, or job function?
0:52.7	Would you like to close this conversation gap between you and your boss, coworkers, employees, or job function. Would you like to close this conversation gap between
0:55.1	you and your boss, co-workers, employees, or customers? Our guest on this episode, Alyssa Carpenter,
1:00.5	has advice on how to do just that. Alisa is a workplace communications expert and the owner of
1:06.6	Everything's Not Okay, and That's Okay, where she provides training, consulting, and speaking services
1:12.7	to organizations. She's also the author of How to Listen and Be Heard, Inclusive Conversations at Work.
1:20.4	Alyssa, thank you so much for joining us.
1:22.5	Thank you so much for having me.
1:24.4	Why did you decide to get into the field of workplace communications? It's a fascinating
1:29.2	area, but what sparked your interest in it? Yeah, it's interesting. My background is in higher
1:35.0	education and I worked in colleges and universities for about 12 to 13 years. And just during that time,
1:42.0	I noticed so much kind of duplication of efforts and frustration
1:46.7	among the people I was working with, some members of my team and other teams, and realizing
1:51.9	this doesn't have to be, I don't want to say that bad, but sometimes in workplace situations,
1:58.1	people are frustrated and they don't have to be. And there's just so much miscommunication. So being able to work with companies and organizations and speaking and
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