Exploring Crucial Conversations
Crucial Conversations Training infuses two days (14 total hours) classroom time with more than 60 original video clips of “before and after” situations. Enjoy video-based instruction from the authors of Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High. Engage in extensive in-class practice, group participation, and personal reflection as you explore and master these crucial skills.
Description
- Get Unstuck
- Spot the conversations that are keeping you from what you want.
- Avoid moving to silence or violence during crucial conversations.
- Share facts, ideas, feelings, and opinions candidly and honestly.
- Start with Heart
- Identify your own Style Under Stress and manage it.
- Stay focused on what you really want and maintain dialogue.
- Understand how motives change when conversations turn crucial.
- Master My Stories
- Start Stay in dialogue when you’re angry, scared, or hurt—“think” your way to the root cause of negative emotions.
- Discover your stories—how do you justify your behavior?
- Eliminate Victim, Villain, and Helpless Stories, and improve your results.
- STATE My Path
- Speak persuasively, not abrasively.
- Get your meaning across even with potentially threatening messages.
- Share strong opinions without shutting down contrary views.
- State your mind while making it safe for others to do the same.
- Learn to Look
- Spot the warning signs that indicate safety is at risk.
- Notice various forms of silence and violence.
- Step out of a conversation and notice how to make it work.
- Make It Safe
- Take steps to rebuild safety and return to dialogue.
- Talk about almost anything—without silence or violence.
- Use specific skills to keep everyone sharing information.
- Establish and maintain mutual purpose and mutual respect.
- Recognize when you’re at cross purposes.
- Explore Others’ Paths
- Use exploring skills to make it safe for others to speak up.
- Diffuse others’ violence and eliminate silence.
- Get safely to the meaning behind others’ emotions.
- Move to Action
- Put Crucial Conversations principles and skills together.
- Move from healthy dialogue to taking action and achieving results.