Workplace grace
Oddball Leaders uphold the dignity of ALL people
“Does it ever get easier to have difficult conversations with your staff?”
One of my teammates lobbed this question at me recently. We’d just finished talking about trusting the process — how we handle conflict, miscommunication, and general human messiness at work.
And for some reason, the question hit me sideways. Maybe because, yes. Those conversations have gotten easier for me over the years. And I’m just now admitting it to myself.
(Sometimes I still feel like a kid cosplaying as a boss, so any moment of clarity is gratefully received. 😆😆😆)
But here’s what I’ve learned: the only way difficult conversations become even remotely manageable is if you anchor them in dignity. Yours. Theirs. Everyone’s.
Everything else is just logistics.
Here’s what “workplace grace” looks like:
