Critical Analysis Of Difficult Conversations

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We all go thru different phases and life changes in our lives creating more needs and solutions to our problems. Many of us handle conflict negatively and think conflict is bad. Therefore, the best way to resolve conflict is learning how to handle things in a better way. This means understanding the person and understanding what has created the conflict and miscommunication. The book, “Difficult Conversations,” helps us learn different perspectives and needs to our conflicts and learning how to resolve conflict and what has created people to have different standards in their personal culture. In Chapter 7, “What is your purpose? When to Raise It and when to let go,” emphasizes work through three conversations. These three aspects are being …show more content…

We don’t ever realize that we all want to be heard out. However, we don’t let others talk. We all dislike admitting we are very bad listeners most of the time. Therefore in this chapter we have one major aspect. This aspect is mainly, “Paraphrase for Clarity.” This is done by, “expressing the other party personal thoughts, concerns, issues. Acknowledging their feelings is very important because it is important to listen to the person that needs to be heard out. What we mainly learn here as well is how to speak to people. One thing I mainly enjoyed knows how to ask someone a question that you’re concerned about similarly on when to exactly address issues. An example through real life is the activity we did in class. The activity was listen to your partner’s story without disturbing and being able to tell the story back later without any issues. We all know how hard it is to listen to the person we are listening to without disturbing them. Through this activity I learned that it feels weird in the beginning listening to someone without disturbing them. This is because we want to make sure we have all the details analyzed in our process of thought. However, by time it is possible to know how to proceed in this

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