How to Have That Difficult Conversation: Gaining the Skills for Honest and Meaningful Communication
Written by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Narrated by Tom Parks
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About this audiobook
Full of practical tips and how-tos, this audiobook will help you make your relationships better, deepen your intimacy with people you care for, and cultivate more love, understanding, and respect between you and others.
Successful people confront well. They know that setting healthy boundaries improves relationships and can solve important problems. They have discovered that uncomfortable situations can be avoided or resolved through direct conversation. But most of us don't know how to have difficult conversations, and we see confrontation as scary or adversarial.
Authors Henry Cloud and John Townsend take the principles from their award-winning and bestselling book, Boundaries, and apply them to a variety of the most common difficult situations and relationships in order to:
- Show how healthy confrontation can improve relationships
- Present the essentials of a good boundary-setting conversation
- Provide tips on preparing for the conversation
- Show how to tell people what you want, stop bad behavior, and deal with counterattack
- Give actual examples of conversations to have with your spouse, your date, your kids, your coworker, your parents, and more!
This audiobook is a practical handbook on positive confrontation that will help you finally have that difficult conversation you've been avoiding.
A discussion guide is included in the audiobook companion PDF download.
Henry Cloud
Dr. Henry Cloud is an acclaimed leadership expert, psychologist, and New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold over 10 million copies. In 2014, Success magazine named Dr. Cloud one of the top 25 most influential leaders in personal growth and development. He graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BS in psychology and completed his PhD in clinical psychology at Biola University.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The authors offer reasons and tips for confronting people who you need to have that difficult conversation with. Their reasoning and principles are extremely sound and valuable. The tips about how to defuse the common ways people try to sidetrack these types of conversations were especially helpful. This is a message I definately needed to hear and to put into practice. If you have trouble confronting people in a loving yet firm manner--and who doesn't--then it's definately worth your while to read this book.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As is typical for psychology books written by Christians, the secular parts were helpful and the biblical parts were unnecessary. I feel that authors feel the need to market their books to Christians and that is a little sad. It brings in assumptions and biases and dull the helpfulness of the self-help genre.