NAPD Leadership Institute Indianapolis 2025

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• Introduce Leadership Challenge

As leaders, it’s our responsibility and charge to ensure we’re taking care of and helping to empower the most important asset in our organizations – our people. One of the biggest challenges I hear from “titled” leaders and team members is that they don’t want or know how to have difficult conversations, even though we know that not having them is impacting our culture and representation. In this session, we’ll explore how to overcome our fears and (hopefully) learn to embrace the discomfort that comes with having these necessary conversations.  I’ll share lessons learned from mistakes I’ve made as well as offer some books, tools, and tips that help to create safe spaces where we can have, and learn to appreciate difficult conversations.

Case Problem with Action Plans and Scripts for Difficult Conversations

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