The number one indicator of a lack of courage is an inability to have hard conversations.
Hard conversations are scary. Our hearts start pounding, our tummies clench, our mouths go dry.
Hard conversations feel dangerous. If I say this thing, he’ll be offended! She’ll be angry! I’ll get in trouble!
Hard conversations are tempting to avoid. Nobody else is mentioning these elephants. Why should I?
But what if you were great at them?
What would it mean for your relationships?
What would it mean for your career?
What would it mean for your life?
Here’s how an actual participant answered those questions:
“It would let me sleep at night."
"It would mean I wasn't drinking so much."
"It would mean I wouldn't have that pit in my stomach all the time.”
That’s what this programme is about.
The Framework
We start by laying the foundation:
- The four types of hard conversation
- When it's worth it — and when it's not
- How to define success
Then we get into it. We practice your specific hard conversation to grow the visceral muscle of doing the thing .
Next, we explore advanced techniques: how to give any hard conversation the greatest chance of success.
By the end of the day, your approach to hard conversations will leave you feeling:
- relieved, not resentful
- energised, not exhausted
- confident, not cowardly.
These are the conversations you’ve been wanting to have and meaning to have.
They’ve been waiting for you.
How we got here
In 2019, our founder and CEO, Kaila Colbin, trained with Dr Brené Brown to facilitate the Dare to Lead™ curriculum. In the past six years, she’s taken more than 4,000 people through programmes to grow courage as a core competency.
This framework is based on Kaila’s insights from that work: from the questions that come up over and over, the repeated challenges that arise, and the clear patterns in what works.
It’s a framework that can be used in any environment to improve communication, connection and belonging.
