From your HR team, powered by great{with}talent

Have a better conversation – the hard ones and the ones that matter.

From the hard conversations – underperformance, conduct, conflict – to the ones that keep good people – recognition, development, career – a little preparation makes all of them go better. This companion turns any of them into four clear steps.

Start preparing

Pick your conversation

Choose the conversation – a tough one or a good one – and its nature, from simple menus.

Get a tailored plan

A structured, four-step guide with opening lines, questions and next-step prompts written for your situation.

Prepare & print

Make notes against each step, then print or save a one-page prep sheet to take in with you.

Private to you – and only you

Nothing you type is ever sent to a server or seen by anyone else. Your prep is saved locally in this browser, so you can close the page and pick up where you left off – and you can download or print a dated record to keep for follow-ups or to share with HR.

Set up your conversation

Question 1 of 7

Who is the conversation with?

First name or initials – just to personalise your prep. Kept on this screen only, and optional.

What's your relationship to them?

What is the conversation about?

This shapes the whole guide, so it's the one choice we really need.

What's the nature of it?

A little more detail so the guidance fits your situation.

Is this the first time, or a recurring issue?

How do you expect them to react?

This helps us prepare you for the moment.

In one line, what's prompted this?

Optional – a quick anchor for your notes. Keep it factual and specific.

Your conversation companion

 

Step 1 of 4
Set a follow-up reminder – good conversations lose momentum without a second one. Pick a date and pop it in your calendar.
Your prep saves on this device automatically, so you can reopen this page and carry on where you left off. Use Download to save a dated copy for follow-up conversations or to share with HR, or Print / save as PDF to file it.

Saved on this device

My saved conversations

Everything you've prepared on this device. Open one to carry on your notes, download a record to keep or share with HR, or remove it.

These conversations are stored only in this browser on this device. To keep a copy elsewhere or hand one to HR, use Download on the conversation. A shared, multi-user history across devices is part of the planned platform version.

About great{with}talent

We made this – here's how else we help.

Hello. We're great{with}talent. We built this free tool because equipping managers for the conversations that matter is one small corner of something we've cared about for a long time: helping organisations understand what's really going on with their people – and do something about it.

For twenty-odd years we've turned what employees tell you into clear, decision-ready insight – independent, benchmarked against two decades of data, and written in plain English by people who've done this a lot. Not another dashboard. Answers you can act on.

The challenges we know you're facing

  • Why your good people leave – and how to keep the ones you can't afford to lose.
  • Whether new starters are settling in, or quietly heading for the door.
  • How engaged your teams honestly are – not how engaged you hope they are.
  • Whether your managers are ready for the conversations that matter.
  • Where inclusion is working, and where it quietly isn't.
  • Hiring and developing the right people in the first place.

No pitch, no slides – just a conversation.

If any of that rings true, we'd welcome an informal chat about what you're up against and whether we can help. No obligation, and no hard sell.

Let's have an informal chat More at greatwithtalent.com

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Your conversation notes never leave your browser. Separately – and only if you'd like to – you can get the occasional useful thing from us (new free tools, practical insight, no spam), or tell us how to make this better. It's an early version and we're shaping it from real use.

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