Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition
1 What’s a Crucial Conversation?
2 Mastering Crucial Conversations
PART I WHAT TO DO BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH
3 Choose Your Topic
4 Start with Heart
5 Master My Stories
PART II HOW TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH
6 Learn to Look
7 Make It Safe
8 STATE My Path
9 Explore Others’ Paths
10 Retake Your Pen
PART III HOW TO FINISH
11 Move to Action
12 Yeah, But
13 Putting It All Together
Notes
Index
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
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.