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

Our 6-Week Interactive Webinar Program includes:

• World-class content from renowned leadership authors

• A complimentary copy of Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott

• Self-study materials, assessments, exercises, & participant workbook

• An extensive toolkit of practical ideas for applying what you learn

• Six weekly one-hour webinars

• Facilitated peer learning through group discussion

• Access to an exclusive program web page with additional resources for individual skill development

• MP3 recordings of each webinar

• A multi-faceted learning approach designed to facilitate retention and application

• A bonus 30-minute coaching session with one of our *Gifted Leaders* coaches

• A free subscription to the Gifted Leaders monthly leadership e-Newsletter

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.

Register for our next TRUE TALK Interactive Webinar Program Now!

Here’s an overview of each module 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

• The program runs for six consecutive weeks. You’ll receive new e-course study materials a week prior to each scheduled webinar.
• The 60-minute group webinar will be held on the same day and time each week.  Calls will be recorded and available for download (mp3).
• Between webinars we'll 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 program is facilitated by a team of *Gifted Leaders* coaches

Program Schedule and Cost:

• Public Offerings

- Fall 2009: October 7 - November 11
  Wednesdays at 9 a.m. or 12 Noon Pacific Time
  Early Registration (on or before Sep. 25): $349
  Regular Price (after Sep. 25): $379
  Register Now at our secure Gifted Leaders Store.

- Spring 2010 - Dates/Times TBA

      

Watch for more information in our free Gifted Leaders e-Newsletter and contact us by e-mail with any questions.

• Customized In-House Offerings

TRUE TALK™ is a convenient and cost effective way to provide leadership development for employees and staff.  Click on the "Contact Us" link below for a FREE, 30-minute telephone consultation to see what might work for your team or organization.

Your TRUE TALK Coaches:

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