Tough Conversations

I can't take credit for finding this article.  Ben George tweeted this article out through the athletics twitter feed.  It is an article that seems to be getting some play throughout the high school sports scene.  It is not necessarily an article, but more of a blog post about an experience.

Here is the article.

Though it is a reading about sports, please take the time to read it.  I find it to be more of an article about "tough conversations."

Questions To Consider:
1.  Maybe you are not a sports person, have you felt like the writer in some situation?  Maybe it was in a theater setting or a audition setting.  What would you say to that student that comes to you and starts wailing?
2.  In most all cases, listening is much more important than talking.  Listening leads, most times, into the correct response or answer to a question.  Reflect on your listening practices, are you a good listener?  Do you make your listening productive?
3.  How do you handle tough conversations?  Avoid them?  What way would you like to handle tough conversations?