Homework for Training Day 1
You’ve just learned new skills for speaking up and holding people accountable. On paper and in the training, these skills are crystal clear and easy to implement. But what happens when life throws a curve ball and the situation you’re facing is just unique enough that you’re not exactly sure how to apply your new skills?
The VitalSmarts team of bestselling authors and experts addresses exactly these kinds of tricky situations in the Crucial Skills Newsletter, a free weekly e-newsletter for VitalSmarts training graduates and book readers.
Here are the top ten Yeah But scenarios you might be facing and the author’s specific feedback for implementing your Crucial Accountability skills.
- Confronting Poor Performance
- Dealing with Toxic Gossip at Work
- Holding Clients Accountable
- When It’s Time to Let People Go
- Working with a Difficult Employee
- Using CPR to Save Relationships
- How to Really Master Your Story
- Talking to Your Children
- The Silent Spouse
- Asking for a Raise
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Listen in as each of the authors shares creative insights, humorous stories, and useful tips as a follow-up to the skills learned in training. The Audio Companion can help you better handle accountability challenges that keep many individuals, teams, and organizations stuck.
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This worksheet gives you specific recommendations for improving your newly learned skills, provides a weekly practice schedule, and helps you prepare to hold an accountability discussion.
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Get access to our popular self-assessment to determine your strengths and weaknesses in applying your new Crucial Accountablity skills. Use your initial score from training as a baseline to see if you're improving over time.
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