Crucial Confrontations: Tools for talking about broken promises, violated expectations, and bad behavior - Softcover

Patterson, Kerry; Grenny, Joseph; Mcmillan, Ron; Switzler, Al

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071446524 ISBN 13: 9780071446525

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2004

Synopsis

Shows you how to achieve personal, team, and organizational success by healing broken promises, resolving violated expectations, and influencing bad behaviour. This work lets you discover skills to resolve touchy, controversial, and complex issues at work and at home. It also includes scripts modelling the best way to deal with confrontations.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Hey, if you read only one 'management' book this decade...I'd insist that it be Crucial Confrontations."--from the foreword by TOM PETERS

"Revolutionary ideas...opportunities for breakthrough..." -- STEPHEN R. COVEY, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

"...unleash the true potential of a relationship or organization and move it to the next level...."-- KEN BLANCHARD, coauthor of The One Minute Manager® and The Secret: What Great Leaders Know--and Do

"The most recommended and most effective resource in my library."-- STACEY ALLERTON FIRTH, Vice President, Human Resources, Ford of Canada

"Brilliant strategies for those difficult discussions at home and in the workplace..."--SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, cohost of CNN's Morning Edition

"This book is the real deal....Read it, underline it, learn from it. It's a gem."-- MIKE MURRAY, VP Human Resources and Administration, Microsoft (retired)

NEVER WALK AWAY FROM ANOTHER TOUCHY, CONTROVERSIAL, OR COMPLEX ISSUE--AT WORK OR AT HOME!

Behind the problems that routinely plague families, teams, and organizations are individuals who either can't or won't deal with failed promises. Others have broken rules, missed deadlines, or just plain behaved badly. If anybody steps up to the issue, they often do a lousy job and create a whole new set of problems.

New research demonstrates that these disappointments aren't just irritating--they're costly--sapping organizational performance by 20 to 50 percent and accounting for up to 90 percent of divorces. Drawn from over 10,000 hours of real-life observations, Crucial Confrontations teaches skills to increase confidence in facing tough issues. Learn to:

• Permanently resolve failed promises and missed deadlines
• Transform broken rules and bad behaviors into productive accountability
• Strengthen relationships while solving problems

About the Author

Kerry Patterson has consulted with hundreds of Fortune 500 companies using his award-winning training program to teach development and maintenance of healthy organizations.

Joseph Grenny has 20 years of experience coaching thousands of corporate and government leaders around the world in the art of communication.

Ron McMillan cofounded and was the vice president of research and development of Covey Leadership Center.

Al Switzler is currently on the faculty at the Executive Development Center at the University of Michigan.

Together these authors have founded VitalSmarts and have trained more than 500,000 people world wide. They live in the greater Salt Lake City area.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0071446524
• ISBN 13: 9780071446525
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 284