Those who are best at
holding crucial conversations don't consider whether it's in their job description to speak up; they consider whether it's in their interest to voice their concerns.
Research shows that one in three educators
avoids crucial conversations in the workplace, which leads to stress, burnout, and diminished enjoyment.
Also strapped for time, leaders may find it difficult to lead
crucial conversations around the data and follow up with professional growth opportunities for teachers.
As suggested in
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, et al, we feel the answer lies within the previous question — we need to make the conversation safe.
He is a Certified Trainer
in Crucial Conversations, DiSC, Emotional Intelligence, Developing High Performance Teams, Improving Employee Engagement and Coaching for Behavioral Change.
So they knew it was time for a change when they realized their performance evaluation software was actually inhibiting
crucial conversations between principals and teachers.
Regularly engaging in
healthy crucial conversations that strengthen relationships, improve teamwork, and influence positive change can be enormously helpful, not only in avoiding being consumed, but also in restoring much of the meaning and joy that attracted teachers to education in the first place.
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Best Quote: «Despite the importance
of crucial conversations, we often back away from them because we fear we'll make matters worse.
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In our study, Silence Kills, we found that the most common reason nurses don't
hold crucial conversations is that they tell themselves, «It's not my job.»
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We've helped hundreds of companies make the «sell» and have
the crucial conversations that drive big results in sales event registration.
Where Ross sees a conversation - stopper in the claim that opposing the current bill means being willing to let people die, I see the start of
a crucial conversation.
A crucial conversation is beginning, and it is in this fluid and volatile context that Blue Labour ideas could make a crucial difference.
Now that our Party is in Government, maintaining
this crucial conversation takes on a different character than before — but it is all the more essential.
By showing that we are alive to people's concerns, this allows Labour to start having
those crucial conversations with the public about what they are really upset about which are things that Labour cares about — pressures on local health and social care services; a lack of local investment and housing; not sharing the wealth and opportunity that London has; systemic inequality; culture; integration.
Talk about a fashion statement: Transgender veteran, Carla Lewis, just started
a crucial conversation with a shirt that reads «Transgender...
He overhears
a crucial conversation with the doctor about the farmer's terminal illness:
It's part of the strength of Parker's film that the current controversy doesn't entirely overshadow its impact — and that Birth of a Nation immediately becomes part of
another crucial conversation, about race.
She gets Brenda alone for a fraught and
crucial conversation (which is against all standard procedures, but never mind), and for the length of that conversation the movie is about something, and it works.
But it's part of the strength of Parker's film that the current controversy doesn't entirely overshadow its impact — and that «Birth of a Nation» immediately becomes part of
another crucial conversation, about race.
This strategy, also taken from Patterson's
Crucial Conversations, has proven particularly powerful.
Begin
your crucial conversation by finding common ground.
Speak Up or Burn Out: Five
Crucial Conversations that Drive Educational Excellence, Part 1 Teachers can master the stressors in their environment by engaging more consistently and more effectively in five conversations that are common, impactful and, too often, undiscussable.
Finally, the most skillful teachers we studied have a different goal in
their crucial conversations.
See all four parts of David Maxfields series, Speak Up or Burn Out: Five
Crucial Conversations that Drive Educational Excellence.
If you find yourself losing patience with the person with whom you need to have
a crucial conversation, that is a sign you need to change your view of that person before starting to talk.
When your goal is dialogue rather than monologue,
your crucial conversations lead to mutual learning rather than dueling defenses.
These five
crucial conversations that drive educational excellence can be tricky to navigate.