Dr. Renée Thompson

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3,566 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Dr. Renée Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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who rallies the team, rallies the troops against the leader.

Trust me, I've heard it all.

And when I've asked the leaders, well, have you sat down and had a conversation with them about this?

95% of them said they haven't.

Now, this is no judgment, no shaming, no blaming here.

It's just the reality.

And so I've given this a lot of thought, like, first of all, like, why do we avoid these hard conversations?

And I read something from David Ramsey.

Everybody knows him as the finance guy, but he's also a leadership guru.

And according to Dave Ramsey, we avoid hard conversations because of these reasons.

First of all, you lack the skills.

And we've seen this on all the leaders we've worked with.

You may feel like you don't know how to handle these conversations.

Effectively, the biggest challenge of leadership is really modeling what's never been modeled to you.

So you don't even know how to address it.

You don't know how to have that conversation.

She also said uncertainty, not knowing how the other person's going to react.

That's a big reason why a lot of us don't give feedback to people.

Constructive feedback is because we don't know how they're going to react.

You know, people get defensive.

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