Can the Principles of Fierce Conversations Fix Your Problems?

Many people are familiar with Fierce Conversations (the book and model) by Susan Scott. The book contains 7 principles, including “Master the courage to interrogate reality”, “Tackle your toughest challenge today”, and “Take responsibility for your emotional wake”. In this session, we will review the principles and basic definitions of each. Then we will take a deep dive into them exploring when we follow the principles and when we don’t. Expect to get into some depth here because we will be looking for some easy examples as well as some challenging examples from everyone. We will have a few options for the challenging examples, to make things safe, since some folks may not want to share the most challenging example. My goal will be to share at least one of my very challenging examples of when I struggle to follow a principle – and what I am doing to start doing it more. Throughout this session and afterwards, you can ponder, “can these fix my problems?” and decide what to do next.