At work.
The feedback you owe someone. The boundary you need to set. The question nobody wants to ask.
WORK. RELATIONSHIPS. LIFE.
For theconversationyou keeprehearsing.
The words you haven’t said.
The moment you keep putting off.
A different way to enter the room.
Some things
deserve to be said.
deserve to be said.
01 / THE IDEA
Every difficult
conversation has
three chairs.
01 One belongs to you.
02 One belongs to the other person.
03 The third belongs to the conversation itself.
The Third Chair asks you to step far enough beyond your position to see what the conversation actually needs. Through candid stories, practical reflection and six decisions, Dragan Andric explores the conversations we avoid at work, in relationships and throughout life.
You cannot control how another person responds. You can consider how you want to show up.
The Uncomfortable Conversation Guide
for Work, Relationships and Life
02 / WHERE IT MEETS YOU
The room changes.
The conversation matters.
In relationships.
The tension beneath “I’m fine.” The need you have not named. The difference you are trying to understand.
With yourself.
The story you keep repeating. The assumption worth questioning. The part that is yours to own.
FROM THE BOOK
“Listening does not ask you to make yourself smaller.
It asks you to make your understanding larger.”
DRAGAN ANDRIC / THE THIRD CHAIR
03 / A WAY INTO THE CONVERSATION
Six decisions.
Your way forward.
Ways to consider your next conversation.
Open each decision to begin.
01Prepare+
Consider the facts—and the person you want to be when you enter the room.
02Understand+
Look beyond your first interpretation. Make room for what you may not yet know.
03Protect+
Keep the purpose, dignity and boundaries of the conversation in view.
04Speak+
Say what needs to be said with honesty, clarity and care.
05Listen+
Make room for another perspective while keeping your own voice.
06Release+
Recognize what remains yours to do, and what you cannot control.
Bring a little more
clarity into the room.
One conversation. Six honest reflections. A free companion to help you think before you speak.
Open the reflection sheet ↗Use it on screen, print it, or save it as a PDF.
05 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORDS
A human book.
From a human life.
Dragan Andric draws on years of leading people and navigating difficult conversations across countries, cultures and industries.
In The Third Chair, he brings those experiences into a story-led guide to honesty, boundaries and listening at work, in relationships and in everyday life.
Meet Dragan on LinkedIn ↗For book clubs, podcast conversations and workplace enquiries: hello@thethirdchairbook.com.
THE NEXT CONVERSATION IS YOURS.
Take
your seat.
The Third Chair by Dragan Andric.
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