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"Crucial Conversations" Training Translated into Six Non-English Languages

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McGraw-Hill to Publish New Book from VitalSmarts on Resolving Disappointment

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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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Healthy Communication With Mom/Dad Could Keep You From Becoming Sick

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Talking Hi-Tech at Work

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Antisocial Networks? Hostility on social media rising for 78 percent of users

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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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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 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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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 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

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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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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

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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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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

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Getting Back to Business: Most Companies Are Not Prepared to Do Business in an Ongoing Pandemic

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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

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Work from Home and The Collapse of Social Capital: Ignoring the Cultural Impact of WFH Will Erode Relationships and Results