Choose your story
Same destination. Different journey. Both routes develop the same capabilities, use the same standards, and end in the same conversation plan. Pick the one you'd rather think inside.
A Few Good Men
When truth confronts power.
A steep hierarchy, an account that doesn't hold, and what it takes — and costs — to say so to the person with the authority.
Begin with A Few Good Men
Hacks
When honesty tests a relationship.
Two people who need each other unequally, honesty the work depends on, and the repair required to keep working together.
Begin with HacksYou can change stories while you are still in Observe. After that, your chosen story stays with you for the rest of the experience.
The question at the center
How do you say what needs to be said when staying silent has a cost — but so does speaking up?
Why it matters
Almost everyone is carrying a conversation they haven't had, or one they had badly. Courage is only the start of it: what makes the difference is knowing what you actually know, how to say it, how to listen to the answer, and what you do afterwards.
The Learning Everywhere Framework™
Five stages, one conversation plan. You decide when to move.
1
Observe
Watch how truth, power and relationship collide in your story.
2
Connect
Bring one real conversation of your own.
3
Analyze
Assumptions, candor, listening, defensiveness, repair.
4
Apply
Build My Conversation Plan in your own words.
5
Reflect
Name what you now see differently.
Potato™, your learning coach
Potato won't tell you what to say or write the conversation for you. It asks the questions you'd want a thoughtful colleague to ask — including the ones about what you might be assuming.
What you'll walk away with
- A Conversation Plan for one real conversation you're weighing
- A clearer line between what you observed and what you concluded
- A responsible next step that holds even if you still disagree at the end