Course description
Mastering the Art of Critical Conversations
If you're like most people, you run into trouble when conversations turn from routine to crucial. Your body’s natural fight-or-flight response takes over. The knee-jerk response is to run and dodge the topic, hide behind an email, or just wing it and hope for the best.
Productivity stems from face-to-face communication, as well as your ability to express controversial and risky opinions effectively. Attend this course and practice using real-life models to conduct difficult conversations on any topic. You’ll gain the skills and summon the courage to step up, speak openly and honestly, and get results that count.
How You Will Benefit
- Determine your “hot buttons” and take steps to manage your emotion
- Transform relationships by addressing real issues with authenticity
- Openly express opinions that can lead to success and productivity
- Give and receive feedback without negativity
- Self-monitor your reactions and keep calm during critical conversations
- Develop advance strategies for managing critical conversations, as well as getting them back on track
- Improve your ability to shape results and get things done
Upcoming start dates
Who should attend?
Anyone who wants to be better prepared to manage critical conversations that can have a significant impact on relationships at work.
Training content
- Analyzing elements of a critical conversation
- Understanding your physiological response and when emotional hijacking occurs
- Recognizing your default mode under stress and your preferred conflict style
- Practicing tools to deal with various emotional responses
- Examining your beliefs and self-fulfilling tendencies
- Identifying remedies to manage critical conversations when they get off track
- Preparing for and practicing different types of critical conversations
- Diagnosing and addressing problems while having critical conversations
- Practicing having critical conversations “on the fly”
Costs
Course price for:
- Non Members: $2695
- AMA Members: $2395
Certification / Credits
CEU: 1.2
Reviews
Average rating 4.7
The content was really good and the instructor was very knowledgeable. The conversations with the other participants was so valuable. I did feel like the course could have been ...
The content is very good as is the instructor. Everyone in the group is a CEO with a member organization of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. It would have been more effective ...
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Very insightful information that has helped me better prepared to having those critical conversations. Even those conversations that catch me off guard.