I should have got this to you sooner
Talk it out, without falling out.
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I should have got this to you sooner…
But I was laid up in bed with ‘symptoms’ for 3 weeks.
So I couldn’t get it all packaged up and ready before now. It’s designed specifically for the kind of pressures people are facing right now. I hope you find it useful.
I also hope that you and yours are well.
As for me - I don’t know if it was THE virus. It was definitely A virus.
And even though my symptoms were mild in comparison to many, it really is scary. It’s the not knowing.
Is this it? What are the signs? Is the worst yet to come? Am I over the worst? Will it come back?
Phew it’s over…
And then it comes back. Is there a second wave? Someone tells me the second wave milder than the first wave. Someone else tells me it can be worse.
Whatever it is, it sure is persistent…
But of course, they are heart-breaking, the stories of people for whom this has been so much worse than it was for me. My heart goes out to them, and to you if it’s you.
I’ll be honest, it was stressful. And all cooped up in self-isolation it’s not easy. There are tensions. I was hard to live with. We have bickered. We aren’t used to being together 24 hours a day. I’m not sure anyone is.
I was wondering if for other people the new proximity with family or flatmates that self-isolation creates, has brought with it more arguments. I imagine it’s there below the surface, right? And a need to be able to talk about it, without making it worse?
And these new pressures of work. I’m not a doctor or a nurse or a delivery driver or a shop assistant or a care home worker. We can’t thank our amazing key workers enough, putting their lives on the line for us. The pressure is immense. If that’s you - then please accept our heart-felt thanks.
And of course under this pressure it’s normal for people to be a bit tetchier, or worse. It’s understandable. But it doesn’t help. At work a rude tone of voice makes the people around make more mistakes. When the pressure’s on – that’s when it’s most important to be able to talk to each other.
So just before the lockdown. Right at the start. I’d really wanted to give something.
Over the past 10 years I’ve helped tens of thousands of people to learn how to have the most difficult conversations. In the most high-pressure environments like healthcare and education.
And after getting out of bed, I was able to distilled all this into a FREE 29-minute course packed with all the essentials of kinder feedback.
How to speak up rather than clam up.
How to give feedback, without blowback.
How to talk it out, without falling out.
How to help the relationships that are most important to you at home and work come out of this stronger on the other side.
I’ve been using it myself. It’s really helped.
Feedback from others has been really positive too.
So please feel free to take this, learn from it, share as far and wide as you’d like, with whoever you know will benefit from it. Your family, friends and colleagues.
Here’s your link to the FREE Foundations of Kinder Feedback course.
So sorry it took so long. But better late than never! I hope you find it valuable.
Stay safe
tim
PS. There is a very surprising secret about great feedback, that you won’t hear in any other courses on this topic – which you’ll find in Chapter 2!