SPARRING SESSION: How to Have Difficult Conversations With People Who are Constantly Interrupting You With Nancy Medoff
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Clarification: The Key to Effective Communication
When you're facing a bully at work and you're trying to advocate for yourself, they are. You need to figure out how in your mind, you can like de-emphasize how much power that take the power away from them. One of the reasons I clarify a lot other than just for the sake of deepening my understanding is time. And so I will ask questions and clarify to give myself time. If especially if somebody has said or done something offensive and my blood pressure has risen to a boiling point, I say, oh, you know, the quamy of this very moment is not emotionally equipped to respond in a way that is sensible.
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