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

Interactive Webinar Program
An interactive leadership development program that combines self-study of selected readings, assessments, and exercises with six weekly 60-minute webinars facilitated by Gifted Leaders coaches.

Leadership in today’s world is less about the power of one, and more about the collective wisdom of many.  Leaders must foster strong, meaningful relationships and understand that success occurs one conversation at a time.

Become a Black-Belt Conversationalist! Improve your impact by enhancing your coaching and communication skills and learn to create a climate of collaboration and trust that results in true ownership and accountability.
 

To learn more about this popular virtual leadership development program, listen to the TRUE TALK Audio Preview of our Fall 2008 program!
 

Features and Benefits of the True Talk™ Interactive Webinar Program

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.

 

 

TRUE TALK is loosely
based on the book
Fierce Conversations.

"When you think of Fierce,
think leadership!  Business is fundamentally an extended conversation in which success occurs one conversation at a time
."

 

Weekly Learning Objectives
  
 
In this program you’ll study some of the specific attitudes and skills required to encourage open and honest dialogue and to face difficult or challenging conversations. And you’ll enhance your ability to communicate more authentically and to develop others.

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 knowledge, strengths, and experience and, in a work setting, leads to better decisions and higher productivity and performance.
     
  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 trust and willingly choose to follow. Authenticity is a powerful attractor. Being authentic 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.
     
  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. Through life experience we’ve developed habituated behaviors and well ingrained perspectives about life and work that may or may not be serving us well. The key to success is to develop more self-awareness so that we can choose different, more effective behaviors when necessary.
     
  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 evokes insight, commitment and action.
     
  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. This involves operating without 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.
     

 


 


REAL TALK

 


WALK YOUR TALK

 


SELF TALK

 


DON'T TALK

 


TOUGH TALK

 


HEART TALK

Program Details, Schedule & Pricing
  
 
Program Details:
  • 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

No Public Offerings Currently Scheduled

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

 

What People Are Saying

"This program opened my eyes to fierce conversations that I have been avoiding. It offered tools that I am able to apply to have these conversations.  In addition, I was reminded of my personal tendencies that may keep my team from growing.”

"Thank you for giving me the resources and the confidence to say the things I have been too afraid to say before and to be direct without hurting people!"

“The TRUE TALK™ program was well worth my time. The program gave me the tools to change and develop effective, meaningful communication both in my personal life and at work. My only regret is that the program was not long enough. Thanks again for an enriching learning experience.”

Questions?  Contact Us

Contact Us by E-mail for information on upcoming program offerings and to inquire about customized offerings.  Schedule a free, no-obligation strategy session to see how Gifted Leaders can help you achieve your leadership development and team building goals.

Your ability to communicate effectively - to master TRUE TALK - is crucial to your success in every area of business and in life. 

*Gifted Leaders, LLC is a collaborative and diverse network of talented coaches and consultants who can help you realize individual and collective potential.  We’re known for our emphasis on a positive, strengths-based, team approach that capitalizes on the power of coaching and strategic collaboration. Gifted Leaders specializes in coaching and consulting services for leadership development and team building.