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As the CEO of a successful multinational company she built from the ground up, Ruth has been given aggressive and ambitious goals by her board to prepare the company for sale. However, her team cannot seem to rise to the challenge. They continue to underperform at every step, making the board's ambitious targets feel more and more like a pipe dream. As she stares at her packed calendar, she wonders how she's going to get everyone to pull together and deliver the results she's promised.
 
In Difficult Conversations Don't Have to be Difficult: A Simple, Smart Way to Make Your Relationships and Team Better, 15-time bestselling author Jon Gordon and renowned executive coach and human resources executive Amy P. Kelly deliver a fresh and innovative new approach to individual and team development. In the book, you'll learn how you can plan, structure, and have the tough conversations that every leader needs to have with their team members to achieve extraordinary results.
 
Written as a business fable, this book is an engaging story about one person's quest to unlock high levels of productivity from a dysfunctional team. It explains why the difficult conversations that your team has been avoiding are also the critically important ones that need to occur before real growth can be achieved.
 
Perfect for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders, Difficult Conversations Don't Have to be Difficult is also a must-read story for coaches, consultants, trainers, human resource professionals, and anyone who aims to unlock the potential of the people they work with.