TRUE TALK™:
Transforming Your Work & Life
through Powerful Conversations

Our 6-module Home Study Course includes:

• A complimentary copy of Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott

• A participant workbook with self-study reading assignments, self-assessments, and exercises

• Pre-recorded MP3 summaries of each module (20-25 minutes/module for over two hours of audio content!)

• PowerPoint presentations corresponding with each MP3 recording (PDF format)

As a participant, you can expect to achieve the following:

• Heightened self-awareness
• Greater understanding of others
• Enhanced ability to communicate with others and to build trust
• Sustainable behavior change as you learn to coach yourself and others to new heights of effectiveness

We encourage you to enhance your TRUE TALK learning experience with optional individual coaching with one of our certified coaches.  If you're ready to maximize your potential, individual coaching will provide additional support to help you reach your goals.

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Here’s an overview of each part of the six-part program:

1. REAL TALK: Getting "Reality" on the Table. Discover how to build the capacity for authentic dialogue where everyone's input and ideas are valued and considered. Authentic, two-way dialogue capitalizes on everyone’s strengths, experience and wisdom and, in a work setting, leads to better performance and competitive advantage. Learn how to identify and eliminate common blocks to dialogue and to get everyone’s “reality” on the table to improve communication and make better decisions.
    
2. WALK YOUR TALK: Discovering the Power of Purpose. Find out how to live and work “on purpose” and be the kind of person who others place their trust in and willingly choose to follow. Authenticity is a powerful attractor. Being authentic - either individually or collectively - means being clear about who you are, where you’re going, and how you’re going to get there and insuring that your actions are appropriately aligned with your vision. And once we understand our unique gifts, values and purpose, we can then move on to effectively serve the needs of others.
    
3. SELF TALK: Thinking About How You Think. Learn to recognize how the mindset and attitude you choose affects your personal growth and happiness as well as your relationships with others. We all have choices in how we respond to our circumstances. Unfortunately, through cumulative life experience we have a well-developed “autopilot” - habituated behaviors and well ingrained perspectives about life and work that may or may not be serving us well. The key to developing more effective behaviors (and, therefore, better results) is to raise our awareness about how it is that we normally operate so that we can make an intentional and conscious decision about whether that’s consistent with who we really want to be.
    
4. DON'T TALK: Telling Ain't Leading, Navigate Via Curiosity. Explore how to make an attitude of curiosity plus powerful questioning and listening skills work for you to create an atmosphere of mutual learning and problem solving. Becoming a good listener is a terrific way to gain attention and win people over. Asking powerful questions allows evokes discovery, insight, commitment and action plus it opens the door to creating greater clarity and new learning.
    
5. TOUGH TALK: A Different Take on Challenging Conversations. Discover how to face challenging conversations by being transparent - an approach to communication that is more direct, more honest, more collaborative, and more effective. When it comes to difficult conversations and confrontations, we’re all experts at avoiding them (or, at least, handling them poorly), but reframing the context to being in front of an issue “with” someone can take much of the heat out of the conversation. Effective communication in these situations involves sharing the motive behind the message with no hidden agendas, trusting your intuition, offering thoughts and opinions without attachment, and inviting others to do the same.
    
6. HEART TALK: Watching Your Emotional Wake. Learn how to be aware of the emotional wake you’re creating for others and take responsibility for making it a positive one. Everything we say or do leaves an emotional wake, either positive or negative. The smallest of interactions with others can have an enormous influence on how they perceive you. It’s critical to reconcile being real, saying what needs to be said and being responsible for the emotional wake you create. Doing so will build capacity and commitment in others through building positive relationships.
    

REAL TALK

WALK YOUR TALK

SELF TALK

DON'T TALK

TOUGH TALK

HEART TALK

• Upon ordering you'll receive:

1. A copy of Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott (shipped via Amazon)
2. A course CD with the participant workbook (PDF) and audio (MP3) and PowerPoint (PDF) files for each module (shipped by Gifted Leaders)
3. A free subscription to the Gifted Leaders monthly leadership e-Newsletter

• As you work through the course at your own pace, we encourage you to focus on the one or two things that will make the biggest impact towards your interpersonal effectiveness. This is how true learning - and most importantly behavioral change - occurs!
• The MP3 audio summaries provided as part of the Home Study Course were recorded by the same team of *Gifted Leaders* coaches who facilitate our Interactive Webinar Program

Home Study Course Pricing:

• Regular Home Study Course Price: $79.95 USD
• SPECIAL Introductory Price (available through Jun. 15, 2009): $69.95 USD
• Order Now from our secure Gifted Leaders Store

Your TRUE TALK Coaches:

Sally Stamp, BSN, MC
and Jeff Thoren, DVM, ACC