A Self-Guided Training To Strengthen Your Ability To Speak Courageously
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Transform your ability to speak courageously
Our lives are filled with important but often challenging conversations that require us to be about to speak authentically and courageously conversations with colleagues, employees, partners, children, family, friends, and neighbors. Our willingness to initiate these conversations and our skill in engaging in them is a foundation for success at work and fulfillment at home.
This course will help you:
Become more comfortable in expressing your authentic feelings and points of views in all appropriate settings
Be proactive in identifying the need for courageous conversations and forthright in initiating them
Develop greater skill in the attitudes and behaviors that create more successful outcomes from challenging conversations
Training Details
Conversations That Matter is a self-guided training program developed by Rockwood co-founder Robert Gass, and specifically designed to help you enhance those skills, allowing you to advance organizational and personal goals and build and maintain relationships without procrastinating, over-preparing, or avoiding altogether.
Through this course, you’ll practice and hone your skills, including:
dealing directly with conflicts
confronting others about performance issues
dealing with interpersonal issues or misbehavior by colleagues
advocating for your own needs
setting limits and boundaries
conversations around race, gender, and equity
This program includes:
Daily Email Practices
25 different practices, emailed to you daily, that will develop your capacity to listen deeply
Self-Assessment
Pre- and post-training self-assessment to track your growth
Learning Partners
Optional opportunity to take the journey with a learning partner
Videos From Robert Gass
Brief, weekly videos to deepen and support your training experience
About Robert Gass, EdD
Robert was the creator of the original Rockwood methodology and curriculum and trained the early cohorts of Rockwood trainers. For over 40 years, he has coached, trained, and facilitated leaders, organizations, and networks working for justice, sustainability, and human dignity. His work is a weaving of his lifetime of experience and learning in social change, humanistic psychology, organizational transformation, movement building, and meditation/spirituality.
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