Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

Difficult conversations in leadership.

Name: Difficult conversations in leadership.
Uploaded: 2025-05-09T16:01:25+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: A leader explains why confronting someone who thinks they're doing fine but isn't is so hard. These conversations feel uncomfortable, but skipping them…

9 May 2025 · 0 min

Watch on YouTube

0:29

A leader explains why confronting someone who thinks they're doing fine but isn't is so hard. These conversations feel uncomfortable, but skipping them lets performance keep sliding. Many people resist because they believe their past contributions protect them from feedback.

It's always quite difficult to pull people up who are, on the face of it, looking to do well and then saying, I'm not sure you are doing as well as you think you are. And being able to have a word, a pragmatic, honest approach, chat around, look, if we continue like this, I don't think it's going to end very well because I think we're just continuing to go backwards here. We had to have some, I suppose, uncomfortable conversations and not everyone's always up for those because they see themselves as, well, I'm bringing in this, so why do I need to worry about that?