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Difficult Conversation
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-27
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-comms
Prepare for and script a hard conversation — conflict, bad news, a boundary, an apology. Use when asked to prepare for a difficult conversation, address a conflict, deliver bad news, confront a colleague, or have a hard talk with a manager/report/peer. Produces a prep brief — the real goal, the other side's likely view, an opening line, the key points, anticipated reactions with responses, and the outcome you want.
What to give it
▸The situation — what's happened, with whom, and the relationship (manager, report, peer, client).
▸What you want — the real outcome (often a changed behaviour or a restored relationship, not "to be right").
▸Their likely view — how they probably see it, and what they care about.
▸The stakes & history — what makes it hard, and anything that's been tried.
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓The real goal is named (and separated from the ego-goal of "being right")
✓The other person's perspective is genuinely represented, not strawmanned
✓The opening uses facts + impact, not blame or character judgement
✓Observation is separated from interpretation throughout
✓Likely reactions each have a prepared, non-escalating response
✓It closes on a concrete next step or agreement
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not open with blame or "you always/never" — it triggers defensiveness and ends learning
Do not confuse your story with the facts — "the deadline slipped" is fact; "you don't care" is a story
Do not over-script — plan the open and the points, then stay responsive; a rigid script breaks
Do not aim to win — if the goal is to be right, the relationship loses even if you "win"
Do not avoid the actual ask — name the change or agreement you need, kindly and clearly
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
<div data-pm-skill="difficult-conversation"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>💬 Discussion
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