It is inevitable that sometimes we won’t agree or will have an issue we need resolved with a coworker. When this happens, how should you approach a conversation to address the issues? According to the Harvard Negotiation Project, and the book: Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, there are three separate conversations embedded in a difficult conversation, that can act as distractors (Stone, Heen, & Patton, 2010). These conversations are about what happened, our feelings, and our identity that make it extremely difficult to untangle what is going on between us and someone else.