Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Table of Contents:
Preface
1 What's a Crucial Conversation?
2 Mastering Crucial Conversations
PART I WHAT TO DO BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH
3 Choose Your Topic
4 Start with Heart
5 Master My Stories
PART II HOW TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH
6 Learn to Look
7 Make It Safe
8 STATE My Path
9 Explore Others' Paths
10 Retake Your Pen
PART III HOW TO FINISH
11 Move to Action
12 Yeah, But
13 Putting It All Together
Notes
Index


Brief Description:
"Keep your cool and get the results you want when faced with crucial conversations. This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever. The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today's workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation-especially difficult ones-leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, the book teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person. This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You'll learn how to: Respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it Communicate more effectively across digital mediums When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results. Whether they take place at work or at home, with your coworkers or your spouse, crucial conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again"--

Publisher Marketing:

This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever.

The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today's workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation―especially difficult ones―leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You'll learn how to:

• Respond when someone initiates a Crucial Conversation with you
• Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it
• Communicate more effectively across digital mediums

Whether they take place at work or at home, with your coworkers or your spouse, Crucial Conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a Crucial Conversation again.

Contributor Bio:Grenny, Joseph
Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler and Emily Gregory are international corporate consultants and leaders at Crucial Learning, a learning company that offers courses in the areas of communication, leadership and performance. Nearly half of the Forbes Global 2000 have used their courses to improve organizational health and performance.

Contributor Bio:Patterson, Kerry
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Contributor Bio:McMillan, Ron
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Contributor Bio:Switzler, Al
McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide