I invite the leaders of our organizations to step up and support the next generation of our workforce by providing the tools needed to successfully carry on our legacies (I’m lookin at you, paid family leave). As the founder of Career Civility, a communications consulting firm, I am on a mission to change the conversation in the workplace -- and that includes the conversation for working parents too.

No matter how much you love your job and no matter how experienced you are, everyone is susceptible to working with people who do not exert the same amount of energy as you do on any given project. These people may become ‘problem people’.

It’s important to use effective communication skills to ensure all members of the project team are working together to produce the best results.

Use these email responses when you aren’t sure how to communicate a problem

Civil Dialogue is designed to create space for a tough topic to be discussed. It is a format that encourages divergent viewpoints and it embraces civility in a way that reminds us we are all human. 

Civil Dialogue works to create shared meaning behind a polarizing topic. And sometimes - a Civil Dialogue can even help you start to digest pieces of the world you never thought you would be able to understand.