Communicate Better with Everyone (HBR Working Parents Series)

Conduct more productive conversations.

As a working parent, you lead meetings, advocate for your children, and make presentations that win clients all with ease. But when your personal life spills into your professional life whether it's negotiating a schedule change with your boss or talking to your spouse about responsibilities at home it can be a challenge to communicate effectively and reach agreement.

Communicate Better with Everyone provides the expert advice, sample language, and practical solutions you need to help you have more productive conversations with everyone, from your manager to yourself.

You'll learn to:

• Discuss your career and family commitments with your boss
• Set boundaries and stick to them
• Create a safe environment for open, honest conversations
• Decide whether and what to disclose when facing a personal crisis
• Talk back to your inner critic

About the Authors

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 12 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

Daisy Dowling, Series Editor, is founder and CEO of Workparent, the executive coaching and training firm, and the author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself , and Raising Happy Kids (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021). She is a full-time working parent to two young children.