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The Crucial ConfrontationsTM course covers two intensive days of material and uses state-of-the-art training methodologies. For more information, call The Duncan Company at
816-415-1605.

Engaging Delivery

  • Observe "before and after" situations in more than 100 video clips
  • Enjoy video-based instruction from the authors of Crucial Confrontations:
    Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations, and Bad Behavior
  • Engage in role-play scenarios to explore and master critical skills

Participant Materials

  • Practice course skills and track assignments with 225-page participant toolkit
  • Use cue cards and posters to remember key concepts
  • Continue your training experience with free resources and useful reminders
  • Follow-up resources to keep the training alive and ensure transference and retention

Course Outline

Introduction

You'll Learn:
  • What to do before a crucial confrontation
  • What are crucial confrontations and what are the costs of mishandling them?
  • How chronic problems are affecting you and your organization

1    Choose What and If

      You'll Learn:
  • How to know what crucial confrontation to hold and if you should hold it
  • How to watch for signs that indicate you're not dealing with the right problem
  • How to avoid revisiting old problems while missing the real and bigger ones
  • Why people don't talk when they should

2    Master My Stories

      You'll Learn:
  • How to get your head right before opening your mouth
  • The cost of becoming emotional and charging into a confrontation unprepared
  • How to prepare for the "Hazardous Half Minute"
  • How you generate your own unhealthy feelings and how to generate new ones
  • The meaning and implications of "The Fundamental Attribution Error"
  • How to expand your ability to diagnose the causes behind all broken promises

3    Describe the Gap

     You'll Learn:
  • How to start a crucial confrontation
  • The most common errors people make when first bringing up a problem
  • How to talk about almost anything with almost anybody
  • How to establish safety
  • The definition of a "gap" - what was expected versus what was observed
  • How to diagnose and create safety by ending with a question

4   Make it Motivating

      You'll Learn:
  • How to help others want to take action
  • How we tend to either abuse or covet power
  • How to influence another person to change his/her behavior
  • The role of clarifying who does what by when - accountability

5   Make it Easy

      You'll Learn:
  • How to make keeping commitments (almost) painless
  • How to remove all ability barriers
  • Separating motivation from ability without mixing one with the other
  • The most common problems when trying to jointly remove ability barriers

6    Stay Focused and Flexible

      You'll Learn:
  • What to do when others get sidetracked, scream, or sulk
  • How to maintain flexibility when the other person raises new issues
  • How not to get sidetracked or stuck on the wrong issue
  • When and how to be focused (stay on track) and flexible (move to the new problem)
  • How to identify new problems and decide if they're worth dealing with
  • How to restore safety when the other person moves to silence or violence
 

All materials related to Crucial ConfrontationsTM are derived from the copyrighted works of VitalSmarts, L.C. The Duncan Company is an authorized and licensed associate of VitalSmarts.

 

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