Human Resources-Organizational and Employee Development (OED) introduces Crucial Conversations, a two-day course that teaches skills for creating alignment and agreement by fostering open dialogue around high-stakes, emotional, or risky topics鈥� at all levels of the organization.
Who should attend: Crucial Conversations training is appropriate for employees at all levels of the organization. Supervisors, managers, and executive leaders will find the course to be particularly relevant to their work.
To register: or search for听Crucial Conversations in Skillport
Consider these questions:
- Does your department suffer from taboo topics, deference, disagreement, analysis paralysis, information hoarding, office politics, or alienation?听
- Is your department battling slow productivity or low morale?听
- Are you a supervisor who struggles with having difficult conversations with employees?听
If you answered yes to any of the above, then you, your team, or your department needs Crucial Conversations training. By learning how to speak and be heard (and encouraging others to do the same), you鈥檒l surface the best ideas, make the highest-quality decisions, and then act on your decisions with unity and commitment.听
Human Resources-OED has teamed up with VitalSmarts to offer this important course to CU Boulder employees. Based on the national best-selling book Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when the Stakes are High, the Crucial Conversations course teaches participants to speak persuasively, not abrasively; foster teamwork and better decision making; build acceptance rather than resistance; and resolve individual and group disagreements.听
Crucial Conversations is offered from 8 a.m.听to 5听p.m. in the Administrative Research Center (East Campus) for the following sessions:听
- Sept. 27 and听29听
- Oct. 18 and 20听
- Nov. 14 and 16听
- Dec. 13 and 15听
- Jan. 17 and 19听
- March 13 and 15听
- April 10 and 11听
Questions? Contact Andrew Frank at andrew.d.frank@colorado.edu or 303-492-8103.听
