How to Tackle Tough Conversations at Work with Brendan Wovchko

The EntreLeadership Podcast

Lampo Licensing, LLC.

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.7 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Let’s be real: Conflict can be super uncomfortable. And if you’re a leader, there’s a good chance you’re faced with it often. But you know what’s worse than having a hard conversation? Avoiding it—and letting problems with your team fester. Fortunately, Brendan Wovchko, senior technology officer at Ramsey Solutions and former business owner, has a fail-safe framework that will help you approach difficult and downright awkward conversations with confidence. You’ll learn how to steer conversations toward actionable outcomes, coach your team members to correct their behaviors, and diffuse any tense situation. ramseysolutions.com/shows/the-entreleadership-podcast Ramsey Solutions' website Download the Guide: Planning an Uncomfortable Conversation EntreLeadership Partners Schedule a call with Tim, the Producer Want expert help with your business question? Call 844-944-1070 and leave a message or send an email to [email protected]. You could be featured on a future podcast episode!

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0:00.0	I'm sure your company everybody does everything the right way the first time without you
0:09.0	having to say much about it.
0:11.0	Yeah right.
0:12.0	Hey, if you're frustrated because people on your team aren't behaving right, that just
0:16.7	makes you normal.
0:17.7	But you know what, as a leader, it's your job to address it and hold people accountable.
0:22.8	But we don't like doing that because those conversations are always uncomfortable.
0:27.9	From the Ramsey Network, this is the Entry Leadership Podcast where we help business leaders
0:32.3	grow themselves, their teams, and their profits.
0:34.9	I'm your host, Daniel Tardy and my guest today is Brendan Watchco.
0:38.5	Brendan is the Senior Technology Officer here at Ramsey Solutions.
0:41.4	He oversees all of our product engineering teams and through his career, he's had to have
0:45.6	a lot of uncomfortable conversations and he's actually gotten really good at it.
0:49.6	He's done it in a way that's very effective.
0:51.7	In fact, he's become the resident expert with our leadership team on how to do this and
0:56.2	he teaches it internally and it's really good stuff.
0:58.5	So we said, let's bring them on the podcast because we know business leaders everywhere
1:02.3	are dealing with this issue.
1:04.0	Before we jump into Brendan's process, I first wanted to ask him about why is it so hard
1:09.4	as leaders for us to embrace uncomfortable conversations?
1:15.0	The hardest part about leadership is you have to lead from a place of giving what you
1:18.5	never got.
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