Conversation Compass Cards

1. Difficult Conversations How it works: Most people avoid difficult conversations because they do not know how to start them — or they start badly and it escalates. The cards remove the paralysis of the blank page. Before the conversation, a leader picks a card that reflects what they need — curiosity, empathy, understanding — and uses it as an anchor. It shifts the internal state from "I need to fix this person" to "I need to understand this person." That shift changes ever