Crucial Conversations

ARE YOU GETTING THE RESULTS YOU WANT?

Get Unstuck and Rapidly Improve Results You Care About Most


Crucial Conversations model for achieving synergy, alignment, and commitment.

Based on over 25 years of research, Crucial Conversations asserts one thing: If you
can transfer skills that top performers routinely use to effectively handle crucial
conversations—particularly in the presence of authority—then you can create more
positive results across an entire organization.

Crucial Conversations training teaches individuals and teams from different backgrounds,
departments, and specialties how to willingly and effectively surface and discuss ideas
in a way that leads to virtually everyone buying into the decisions—creating broad
alignment, maximizing synergy, and ensuring commitment to the best ideas.

When taught, these skills inevitably result in rapid, sustainable, and wide-reaching
positive changes in the results that you care about the most.
Make Crucial Conversations skills your best practices and everything gets better!

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Skills taught in this training deliver significant improvement in areas such as:
Performance - talk honestly and openly no matter how delicate the topic.
Productivity - eliminate resistance and act with conviction when making decisions.
Teamwork - reach agreement on how to work together and treat other teammates.
Change Management - agree with others on and follow through with difficult changes.
Quality - develop productive processes that are eagerly implemented.
Relationships - work through differences with others and strengthen relationships.
Safety - discusses violations and solutions without finger-pointing or resentment.
Diversity - willingly and ably discuss diversity problems face-to-face and in the moment.
Meetings - speak up when things get off track and suggest how to improve them.

COURSE DETAILS
Crucial Conversations training is a 2-day course with more than 120 original video clips of “before and after” situations. Engage in extensive in-class practice, group
participation, and personal reflection as you explore and master these Crucial Skills.

Who Should Attend
Crucial Conversations training is ideal for individuals who regularly deal with touchy, controversial, or high-stakes issues—within a team or across functional lines. Learn to facilitate rapid problem-solving and improve results. For a true change to be achieved, involving teams
and even entire organizations is essential.

For true change to be achieved, involving teams and even entire organizations is essential.

"These skills have not only helped us to
change the culture of our company, but…
enabled us to win the largest contract in
our industry’s history."

Dain Hancock. President, Lockheed Martin Aero

  Training Program Dates
  August 17-18, 2009