CTO Craft Bytes: Smart Conflict – How to Have Hard Conversations at Work

key info

Date: 5th February, 2025

Time: 12:30 – 13:15 GMT

Location: Online

About the EVENT

Join Alice Driscoll and Andy Skipper for this fireside chat where they will introduce you to some of the key tools to embrace smart conflict and transform your leadership, your team (and maybe your life). 
 
Key discussion points:  
  • Why hard truths are an essential ingredient of high-performing teams. 
  • The difference between constructive and destructive challenge. 
  • How our cultural background influences our conflict styles at work 
  • What to do after you have had a rupture with someone to get things back on track. 
  • Small key strategies and practical things you can implement immediately to get better at hard conversations
 
This fireside chat is for you if : 
  • You know you avoid difficult but critical conversations and it’s holding your career or your organisation back.
  • You want to know how to land difficult and sensitive feedback with colleagues in a way that motivates behaviour change but doesn’t shy away from the truth.
  • You are worried that a conflict-avoidant culture is going to prevent your team or organisation from reaching their potential.
  • You’ve had feedback that you, your team or the wider culture is not engaging in conflict constructively and it’s affecting motivation and performance.
  • You need to share some difficult/organisational change news with your team and you want to mitigate and manage a negative response.

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Speakers

Alice Driscoll

Founder, Leadership & Conflict Coach, Alice Driscoll Coaching

Alice is a leadership coach specialising in conflict and hard conversations, helping leaders, teams, and organisations unlock their potential. With a background in leadership, she partners with clients during critical inflection points to refine their leadership approaches, align teams, and build cultures of healthy conflict. From supporting tech founders scaling their businesses to resolving team conflicts threatening performance, Alice’s tailored coaching drives lasting impact. 

Andy Skipper

Founder, CTO Craft

Andy was formerly CTO at Made.com and Comic Relief and fractional CTO for dozens of startups around Europe, as well as an angel investor in some of the most exciting businesses in the UK. He founded CTO Craft in 2017 to provide a supportive community to help senior technology leaders develop the skills they need to be successful, with conferences, coaching, training and more.

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