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How are you handling workplace disagreements while working from home?

If you weren't able to participate in our survey last week, please take a few minutes to tell us about your experience of holding crucial conversations virtually. Your participation helps uncover important workplace trends and behaviors. Also, you'll be entered in a drawing to win a $50 Amazon gift card. Our way of saying thanks.

Q&A: Crucial Accountability
Scott Robley

When You're Bored in One-on-Ones with Employees

A reader writes, "I have an employee who tends to talk a lot and drift off topic in our one-on-one meetings, to the point where I can’t focus." What would you do? This reader is fighting boredom and isn't sure what to do about it. Scott Robley has a suggestion.

How Do I Say That?

How to Balance Humility and Confidence for a Successful Crucial Conversation

Holding a crucial conversation is about speaking your truth, and that takes confidence. And yet your truth is a perspective, and acknowledging that requires humility. In this 90-second video, Emily Gregory explains how to balance both for successful crucial conversations.

One Productive Minute

How to Get Control of Your Inbox in 2 Minutes or Less

What's great about Justin Hale's productivity tips is that they're simple and effective. Small tweaks can lead to dramatically different results. Here's a simple but profound tip from the archives.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

—Abraham Maslow

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