Employing Differences, Episode 193: How bad is it?

01/23/24 • 11 min

"Asking about how bad it is can help us to notice when we're digging in our heels in a situation where the conflict that we're going to need to go through to get to our 'better solution' isn't going to be worth it."
Karen & Paul discuss assessing, weighing, and judging the costs of various decisions.

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Employing Differences, Episode 192: What's going on with them?

"At the end of the day, any action that I might take that's premised on the idea that I have full and complete knowledge of what's going on for another person is really dangerous territory."
Paul & Karen talk about the trouble we can get into when we imagine – or demand to know about – other people's inner lives.

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Employing Differences, Episode 194: How do we share facilitation?

"How do you do something other than just the tag team approach? For me, that's really all about designing the partnership. If we're going to partner on facilitating this meeting, what does that look like? And one way that that partnership can be structured is we're going to take turns. But that's not the only choice that we have."
Paul & Karen discuss the benefits and challenges of co-facilitating.