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Crucial Conversations

Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

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The New York Times best seller!

Learn how to keep your cool and get the results you want when emotions flare.

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 badly and suffer the consequences; or check out Crucial Conversations and discover how to communicate best when it matters most. Crucial Conversations gives you the tools you need to step up to life's most difficult and important conversations, say what's on your mind, and achieve the positive resolutions you want. You'll learn how to:

  • Prepare for high-impact situations with a six-minute mastery technique
  • Make it safe to talk about almost anything
  • Be persuasive, not abrasive
  • Keep listening when others blow up or clam up
  • Turn crucial conversations into the action and results you want

Whether they take place at work or at home, with your neighbors or your spouse, crucial conversations can 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.

©2006 Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler (P)2002 McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio Business Communication Career Success Career Business Emotions
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Great tool to enhance your ability to understand and be understood - something we all crave and miss in our daily lives.

Practice, practice, practice!

Easy to apply tools

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A well formed book with examples on how to apply communication skills to a variety of scenarios. Whilst there are examples, I feel like there could be many more for each scenario discussed in the book. Thankfully it's pretty simple to understand

Good theory

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Very good at defining how we respond to conflict and what to do to change the direction of a negative conversation. I loved it because I used the techniques on my husband and it 100% worked.
An essential read for anyone who has communication issues or for anyone that wants to get better at it.

Excellent instructions

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This book reminds us that reality is nothing but our narration and story about reality. It is always our version of reality; it also teaches us rather than invoking silence or violence; to confront our version of reality with others’ version of reality which could make a big impact on the quality of our personal as well as professional life.

A must read book

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