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"Crucial Conversations" Training Translated into Six Non-English Languages
July 2004
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McGraw-Hill to Publish New Book from VitalSmarts on Resolving Disappointment
October 2004
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How to Talk Politics with Friends - And Still Have Some Left
"Crucial Conversations" Receives Training Product of the Year Award
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When Bad Relatives Happen to Good People
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Setting New Year's Resolutions at Work? Better Get Your Mouth in Shape First
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New Study Finds U.S. Hospitals Must Improve Workplace Communication to Reduce Medical Errors, Enhance Quality of Care
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New Survey Reveals Most Patients Uncomfortable Confronting Medical Personnel
VitalSmarts Adapts Crucial Confrontations for Corporate Training Proven Process for Improving Individual, Team, and Company Performance
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Healthy Communication With Mom/Dad Could Keep You From Becoming Sick
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Talking Hi-Tech at Work
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VitalSmarts Ranks #293 on the 2005 Inc. 500 with Three-Year Sales Growth of 432%
Work for a Jerk? Tips for Confronting Your Boss That Could Save Your Career
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Do You Work with a Scrooge?
VitalSmarts Partners with American Association of Critical-Care Nurses to Improve Patient Safety
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Silence Kills, Dialogue Heals
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April 15 Brings Taxing Conversations
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Weighty Conversations
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VitalSmarts Ranked #491 on the 2006 Inc. 500
VitalSmarts Announces Crucial Conversations Training 3rd Edition
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VitalSmarts Shifts Executive Team Focus with Three Managing Directors
Corporate Untouchables
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85 Percent of High-Stakes Business Initiatives Fail When Executives Avoid Discussing Five Crucial Issues
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Unwrapping the Secret to Talking About Holiday Finances
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Lacking New Year's Resolve at Work?
Crucial Conversations About Drugs With Teens
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Pssst! Your Corporate Initiative Is Dead and You're the Only One Who Doesn't Know?
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Public Displays of Insensitivity (PDIs): Why America Lacks Digital Manners
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VitalSmarts Sales Team Wins American Business Award
VitalSmarts Co-Founders Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 Award Winners in Utah Region
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From the bestselling authors of Crucial Conversations & Crucial Confrontations comes Influencer: The Power to Change Anything
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New Study Reveals Most Leaders Lack Influence
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Why You Can't Kill a Bad Habit with a Magic Bullet
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Nearly Half of Americans Say Presidential Candidates Lack Influence
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VitalSmarts receives an Excellence in Practice Award and delivers a Cracker Barrel session featuring results of their practice with MaineGeneral Health at ASTD 2008 in San Diego, CA.
VitalSmarts Wins Business of the Year Award
VitalSmarts’ Training Programs Receive the Industry’s Highest Approval Status
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Weapons of Mass Discussion
VitalSmarts Releases Influencer Training™
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When Bad Relatives Happen to Good People
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Influencer: The Power to Change Anything named Best Business Book of 2008
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VitalSmarts Names Andrew C. Shimberg as Chief Executive Officer
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Leaders' behavior in four crucial moments determines survival in the recession
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Long-distance loathing: Telecommuting damages morale and productivity
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Organizational Change Management Approach of the Year Awarded to VitalSmarts
Family Reunion: Gearing Up For Fight or Flight?
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Crucial Conversations Training Released in Four New Languages
Office Haunting: What employees fear most are scary conversations with their boss
Influencing the flu: How to prevent H1N1 by changing kids' hand-washing behavior
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Influencer Training by VitalSmarts Is Named Top Training Product of the Year
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Best friends might be worst enemies when it comes to keeping New Year's resolutions
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Silent Danger: 93 percent of organizations are at risk of avoidable workplace accidents
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Cost of Conflict: Why silence is killing your bottom line
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VitalSmarts wins six Telly Awards for exceptional videos
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VitalSmarts Marketing Department Wins American Business Award
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VitalSmarts Awards Albert Bandura for His Lifetime Contribution to Human Behavior Change
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Joseph Grenny to Speak About Influence at HSM World Business Forum 2010
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Are you paying a “Jerk Tax” for your bad manners at work?
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Award-Winning Video Production Team Puts a Holiday Spin on Old Spice
Why You’ll Never Have Enough Willpower to Lose Weight
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VitalSmarts promotes leaders for strong contributions
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New research shows communication breakdowns in hospitals undercut the effectiveness of safety tools and negatively impact patient outcomes
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CHANGE ANYTHING by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler, The New York Times bestselling authors of Crucial Conversations and Influencer
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Stuck in a dead-end career? Your Career-Limiting Habit is to blame
September 2011
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New Study Reveals Life-Altering Impact of Crucial Conversations on Professional and Personal Results
The Authors of the 2-Million-Copy Bestseller Crucial Conversations Release the Second Edition
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Failed Crucial Conversations Cause 1 in 5 Women to Leave Their Job
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VitalSmarts restructures departments and promotes Emily Hoffman to lead new division
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VitalSmarts Releases Change Anything Training
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Spiraling into financial failure? Your wealth-limiting habits are to blame
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VitalSmarts Releases Crucial Conversations(R) Training 4th Edition
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VitalSmarts Study Finds Able Arguers are 10 Times Happier than Silent Spouses
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How to talk politics with friends—and still have some left
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VitalSmarts welcomes new leaders, Stephen Wunderli and Andrew Maxfield
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VitalSmarts Announces Seven Premier Associates for 2012
VitalSmarts Releases the Crucial Accountability™ Companion Course
Déjà vu performance review? Why employees will fail to change in 2013
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VitalSmarts Releases the Impact Cloud Measurement Tool
Stuck with a slacking co-worker? Why you’re to blame
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Antisocial Networks? Hostility on social media rising for 78 percent of users
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Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change
Lack influence at work? Why most leaders struggle to lead positive change
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VitalSmarts Releases Crucial Accountability™
The authors of
Crucial Conversations
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Crucial Accountability
Are your co-workers lazy? Incompetent? Or both?
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How to Blow the Whistle without Blowing Your Career
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Paladin Associates and VitalSmarts partner to help procurement drive lasting change
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The Hidden Cost of Your New Year’s Resolution
VitalSmarts Has Trained One Million People Worldwide
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VitalSmarts Announces Three Premier Associates for 2014
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The Great Generational Divide: New study shows unaddressed resentment between Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials saps productivity by as much as 12%
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VitalSmarts Wins ISA ‘Business of the Year’ Award for Second Time
VitalSmarts Acquires Vital Skills of Michigan
Digital Divisiveness: Electronic Displays of Insensitivity (EDIs) Take Toll on Relationships
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VitalSmarts Releases Virtual Training for Crucial Conversations
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Does Bullying Provide Job Security? You’ll Be Infuriated by the Answer
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VitalSmarts Kicks Off 7th Annual REACH 2014 Event
VitalSmarts Releases Influencer 2.0 Training
VitalSmarts Acquired by Providence Equity Partners
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Joseph Grenny Presents Community Date Night to Help Utah Couples Improve Relationships
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Most Parents Fail at School-Related Crucial Conversations
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Does Santa Make Us Selfish?
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VitalSmarts Named to Top 20 Leadership Training Companies List
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Society’s New Addiction: Getting a “Like” over Having a Life
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VitalSmarts Releases Influencer Training® in the Virtual Classroom
Study: 56% of Employees Have at Least One Grievance They’ve Kept Locked Up for 1 Year
From Bestselling Author Kerry Patterson Comes The Gray Fedora: Lessons on Life, Business, and Everything In Between
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Silence at School: Parents Fail to Communicate Life Altering Events That Affect Student Performance
New Study: Women Judged More Harshly When Speaking Up Assertively
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VitalSmarts Wins Gold in Chief Learning Officer 2015 Learning In Practice Awards
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Study: Employees Are Letting Customer Service Slip—And It Costs Businesses Big
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VitalSmarts Earns Silver Status in the Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards in Technology
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VitalSmarts Named a Top 20 Leadership Training Company and Takes Home Multiple LEAD Awards
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Pink Slips of the Tongue: VitalSmarts Study Reveals the Top Five One-Sentence Career Killers
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New Study Shows It’s Never Been Riskier to Talk About Politics
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Managing Tech Teams: New Study Identifies Four Culture Challenges Unique to Tech that Strongly Affect Performance
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Corporate Culture Chasm: Employees View Their Culture Much More Negatively Than Management
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VitalSmarts Honors HCA for Its Contribution to Changing Human Behavior
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How to disagree with your friends about politics and keep them too: New research shows your delivery matters more than your position
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VitalSmarts Training Recognized by Chief Learning Officer and Training Magazine for Ability to Drive Business Impact and Quality of Training Content
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Unwrapping the Secret to Talking About Holiday Finances
December 2016
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Costly Conversations: Why The Way Employees Communicate Will Make or Break Your Bottom Line
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VitalSmarts Announces Partnership with The David Allen Company
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VitalSmarts Releases Crucial Conversations® Online Training
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Discrimination at Work: Prevalent yet subtle workplace bias erodes productivity and engagement
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Crucial Moments in Healthcare: New study shows staff drama puts patients at risk
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Are you a Ten in your boss’s book? Employees skilled at managing their workload are three times more valuable to their bosses than their peers
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VitalSmarts Releases Getting Things Done® Training
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VitalSmarts Releases the Live Online Edition of Getting Things Done® Training
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Virtual Reality: Remote Employees Experience More Workplace Politics Than Onsite Teammates
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The Pitfalls of High-Potentials: Technically-Skilled Employees Fail to Meet Performance Expectations
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#MeToo Moment or Movement? What’s Missing from The Biggest News Story of The Last Year Is Organizational Action
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Long Silences at Work: Companies struggle when employees don't quickly surface problems or concerns
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VitalSmarts Announces Partnership with Charles Duhigg, Bestselling Author of "The Power of Habit" and "Smarter Faster Better"
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Surviving the Most Wonderfully Stressful Time of The Year
Most Employees Struggle with Key Competencies—But Managers Don’t Do Anything About It
The Manager Effect: 1 Out of 3 Managers Can’t Handle High-Stakes Situations and As A Result, Their Teams are Less Successful
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Over-commitment Epidemic: 3 out of 5 People Say They Can’t Possibly Get Everything Done on Their To-do List
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Open Office Secrets: Most Managers Have Faults Everyone Talks About to Everyone but Them
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Is Your Team a Ticking Time Bomb? New Research Shows It Only Takes 1 or 2 Team Members to Undermine Results When They Fumble Tasks and Responsibilities
July 2019
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The Costs of Career Transition: Employees’ Struggle to Learn New Habits Is Eating at Your Bottom Line
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Office Haunting: 8 out of 10 employees are running in fear from a scary conversation at work
VitalSmarts Acquired by Leeds Equity Partners
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Leaders Say Their Company Is Not Recession-Ready
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Resolving to Find Career Success in 2020? New Study Says Habits Trump All—Even Decision-Making and Talent
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VitalSmarts Releases The Power of Habit™—A Transformative New Course Based on the Best-selling Book By Charles Duhigg
March 2020
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Businesses Are Agile in Responding to COVID-19—But Employees Are Ill-Equipped to Handle Changes
Why Talking Politics Is America’s Most Feared Pastime
April 2020
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VitalSmarts Releases The Power of Habit™ Online Training
Unproductive at Home? The Most Common and Surprising Work from Home Habits of Highly Productive People
May 2020
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Getting Back to Business: Most Companies Are Not Prepared to Do Business in an Ongoing Pandemic
June 2020
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Overwhelmed and Overworked: 8 out of 10 Employees Feel They’ve Been Asked to Do More with Less and They’re Struggling to Keep Up
October 2020
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Work from Home and The Collapse of Social Capital: Ignoring the Cultural Impact of WFH Will Erode Relationships and Results
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February 2021
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COVID Outliers: Speaking Up Was Key to Corporate Survival and Success in 2020