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Crucial Conversations Training

Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Crucial ConversationsTrainingTools for Talking When Stakes Are High

Introducing a Crucial Conversations® Training Experience Designed for K-12 Teachers and Admininstrators

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ALIGN PERFORMANCE WITH EXPECTATIONS

Educators continually face challenges and difficult conversations at some point in time, regarding performance, policy violations, resources, and employee behavior. Having the skills to address these challenges and difficult conversations with administrators, teachers, parents, and students can spell the difference between failure and success. Crucial Conversations equips educators with skills to address tough problems and achieve alignment and agreement for improved results at all levels of the organization.
Drawing on more than 30 years of research, Vital Smarts® training has helped more than 300 Fortune 500 companies improve communications. Presented by a Vital Smarts ® certified trainer, this course will teach you how to resolve disagreements, speak persuasively, and foster a spirit of teamwork that gets results.
A three minute summary of Crucial Conversations Training

SEE THE SKILLS IN ACTION

When you attend Crucial Conversations for K-12, you'll learn how to address interpersonal challenges honestly and respectfully. Learners practice the skills, receive feedback, and leave the training with a skillset they can immediately put to use.


You'll learn how to:


  • Clarify misunderstandings without discrediting.
  • Defuse anger, frustration, and withdrawal by making it safe to dialogue.
  • Foster responsibility and accountability for yourself and others.
  • Identify sources of motivation for yourself and others.
  • Keep conversations on track and going smoothly.
  • Respectfully get others to talk about difficult issues.


Watch and see a short demonstration of Conversation Conversation skills can help educators overcome disagreement, conflict, and misunderstanding.

Crucial Conversations in Education

EACH PARTICIPANT WILL RECEIVE

  • The New York Times bestseller Crucial Conversations:
Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
  • Crucial Conversations Participant Toolkit (157 -page training workbook)
  • Cue cards and a Model card
  • Audio Companion
  • Course Completion Certificate
Hear how educators at San Antonio Independent School District transformed their culture from unhealthy to thriving by learning how to address and resolve grievances.
Reducing Grievances and Building Accountability at San Antonio Independent School District