How to Manage Difficult Conversations with Colleagues

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Course Details

Available Now - Register by December 31, 2025
On-Demand Online Course
8 Credit Hours
This course is intended for aspiring or current managers, or anyone who needs help with difficult conversations.

About This Course

Enhance your work relationships and culture by learning how to approach difficult conversations with confidence.

On-Demand Materials:
Available now! You will have complete access for 6 months.

In this fully self-paced online course, you will learn strategies for engaging in difficult conversations with people at work, such as giving a colleague or direct report critical feedback or approaching your manager with a concern. You will assess your own conflict style in order to bring self-awareness into all conversations and will learn and practice several conflict resolution methods. You will leave this course with practical strategies to overcome or prevent grievances at work while building trust with your colleagues.

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After you attend this course, you’ll be able to:

  • Identify both positive and negative effects of conflict in the workplace.

  • Recognize how your conflict and communication styles and experiences might contribute to difficult interactions, and how you can use your strengths to promote positive relationships with colleagues.

  • Determine steps you can take with a challenging colleague to improve your working relationship.

  • Use trauma-informed practices to ground yourself and guide conversations.

  • Initiate difficult conversations with confidence and a strategy for success.

  • Navigate power dynamics involved in difficult conversations.

This course consists of 2 on-demand modules:


Module 1: Foundations of Conflict Management

This opening module will set the foundations of conflict management and dive into ways you can grow self-awareness and manage your own emotions as a first step to proactive conflict management and relationship building.


Module 2: Applying Conflict Management with Colleagues

This module will focus on work relationships and teach you practical ways to have tough conversations, give and receive difficult feedback, and overcome or prevent grievances at work.

Who should take this course

This course is geared toward aspiring or current managers, or anyone who needs help with difficult conversations.


This will be a self-paced, asynchronous online course.


Expected time commitment

This course includes 2 modules, each designed to take approximately 4 hours to complete. You can move through the content at your own pace and on your own schedule. You'll earn 8 hours of PD credit and a Library Journal certificate of completion.

On-demand access

You’ll have access to all course materials for 6 months fromcourse start date or enrollment date, if enrolling after course starts.


Certificate of completion

Complete the course and earn 8 professional development credit hours. We provide a certificate that is emailed to you. 

Support

For support with online courses, please contact course-support@libraryjournal.com.

Course Instructors


Crystal Trice, CSM@Scale, Library Consultant, Scissors & Glue, LLC

Catherine B Soehner , Associate Dean and Executive Director, Eccles Health Sciences

Discounted rates are available for a limited time only. Secure your tickets now to lock in the best price.



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Early Bird

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Deadline

October 13, 2025

December 31, 2025

Ticket Price

$219

$239







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We offer discounts for groups of 3 or more.

For larger groups of 15 or more, we offer the option to apply group rates across multiple courses to receive significant discounts. For more information, select “Bulk Course Credits Packages” in the form below.

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