Conflict & Tough Conversations Tara Vossenkemper Conflict & Tough Conversations Tara Vossenkemper

Diagnosing the Real Issue: Conflict or Misalignment?

Just because something feels tense doesn't mean you're dealing with true conflict. More often than not, it's something sneakier—unclear expectations, a broken system, or a values mismatch that’s been quietly brewing under the surface. If you’ve ever found yourself thinking “Why is this person being so difficult?”… this is for you.

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Staying in the Fire: Handling Conflict Without Shutting Down or Blowing Up

Let’s be real: conflict doesn’t just feel hard—it feels like your entire nervous system wants to flip the table, crawl under it, or over-explain your way out of the conversation. If you’ve ever felt like you were crushing it one second and spiraling the next, you’re not broken. You’re just a human trying to navigate a tough conversation without losing your grounding.

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Navigating Hard Conversations: Scripts and Strategies for When It's Awkward, Emotional, or Personal

Hard conversations suck. They just do. They're awkward, emotionally loaded, and personal in all the worst (and most important) ways. If you're in any kind of leadership or ownership role, you’ve either delayed one, over-explained one, or completely bailed on one. This guide is for the moments when you know you’ve got to say something, but the words just aren’t coming. Let’s fix that.

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Constructive Conflict: How to Fight Fair in a Group Practice

Let’s be real—conflict in a group practice isn’t if, it’s when. Whether you’re leading the whole damn team or just trying to make it through a Monday, tension is going to show up. And it can either fuel growth or completely derail everything you’ve built.

The trick? Learning how to actually handle conflict—without spiraling into gossip loops, weird vibes, or passive-aggressive Slack messages.

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Bridging the Clarity and Accountability Gap in Your Practice

Let’s talk about something that’s low-key sabotaging your team (and your sanity): the gap between what you think you're communicating and what your team is actually hearing. That little space where intentions get lost, expectations get fuzzy, and suddenly you’re circling back for the fifth damn time on something that should’ve been handled.

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Creating Clarity Without Micromanaging: A Guide to Effective Leadership

Let’s talk about the clarity gap—that weird in-between where you think you're being clear, but your team is secretly (or not-so-secretly) confused. This is the place where communication goes to die, and nobody tells you until it’s a mess. We're unpacking how to close that gap without turning into a micromanaging dictator, because that’s not it.

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Right People, Real Problems: How EOS Helps You Solve What Actually Matters

Let’s be honest—running a group practice can feel like juggling cats on fire while blindfolded. It’s messy, it’s chaotic, and half the time you’re not even sure what the actual problem is. Enter EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System, which helps you stop guessing and start solving. Specifically, we’re talking about the people in your practice and the issues you keep bumping into (or avoiding). Because when your people and your problems are out of alignment, your whole system suffers.

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