Difficult conversations are part of everyone’s life. This can be especially true for farm families who work together, make decisions together, and face succession planning together, just to name a few.
When a crucial conversation needs to be had, there are three options, said Jenn Bentley during an Iowa State Extension Dairy News and Views podcast episode. Those options are to avoid the conversation, face it and handle it poorly, or face it and handle it well.
“Part of what makes them crucial is that we have opposing opinions,” added fellow dairy extension agent Gail Carpenter. This high level of emotion makes it easier to just clam up and not talk about the issue even when we may know it needs to be brought up.
Katelyn Allen
December 20, 2023
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