Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition

Title: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition
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ISBN: 1260474186 / 9781260474183
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 299
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 2021
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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
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.

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Preface
Chapter 1 : What’s A Crucial Conversation?
Chapter 2 : Mastering Crucial Conversations

Part I : What To Do Before You Open Your Mouth
Chapter 3 : Choose Your Topic
Chapter 4 : Start With Heart
Chapter 5 : Master My Stories

Part Ii : How To Open Your Mouth
Chapter 6 : Learn To Look
Chapter 7 : Make It Safe
Chapter 8 : State My Path
Chapter 9 : Explore Others’ Paths
Chapter 10 : Retake Your Pen

Part Iii : How To Finish
Chapter 11 : Move To Action
Chapter 12 : Yeah, But
Chapter 13 : Putting It All Together