How Do I Say That
quarantine
Ideas for Virtual Team Building
Two principles can help you strengthen remote work teams: clarify what you really want; and focus on team building, not “virtual” team building.
Posts by Emily Gregory
Trainer Insights
engagement
Whose Story Should Take the Spotlight?
Fifteen years ago I went to Canada and had one of the most profound insights of my professional life. I was a newly minted VitalSmarts Master Trainer leading both a Crucial Conversations course and trainer certification course in London, Ontario, Canada. The facilitators in the course were and are among the most highly skilled I …
Getting Things Done
overwhelmed
Try This When You’re Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed
This year I started out motivated, with goals for health, productivity, and things I want to learn at work and personally. However, our company is undergoing ANOTHER reorganization.
How to Balance Humility and Confidence for a Successful Crucial Conversation
Holding a crucial conversation is about speaking your truth, and that takes confidence. And yet your truth is a perspective, and acknowledging that requires humility. Emily Gregory explains how to balance both for successful crucial conversations.
How Do I Say That
Crucial Conversations
How Do I Address Someone’s Opinion of My Productivity in a Virtual World?
Vice President of Development and Delivery Emily Gregory shares a tip for addressing concerns around virtual productivity from a coworker.
Is Politics Hurting Your Marriage? Here’s What You Can Do
Dear Emily, I’ve used the techniques from Crucial Conversations in both personal and business situations with success but am now faced with the most critical conversation ever and I don’t know what to do. My husband has become increasingly enmeshed in politics. He is almost blindly devoted to Donald Trump and watches Fox News every …
How Do I Say That
business
How Do I Have A Crucial Conversation Virtually?
Emily Gregory shares a tip for creating the right virtual environment for a crucial conversation. First, acknowledge the challenge of connecting virtually. Then share your intentions for wanting to have the conversation anyway. By acknowledging the limitations of video chat and sharing your good intentions, you’ll help establish safety for moving forward.
How Do I Say That
Anger
How Do I Start a Crucial Conversation?
Vice President of Development and Delivery Emily Gregory shares a tip for starting a crucial conversation when you feel nervous.
How Do I Say That
behavior change
How to Add Meaning to a Crucial Conversation
Vice President of Development and Delivery Emily Gregory shares insight into who is responsible for adding meaning to a crucial conversation.
Trainer Insights
social learning
Double Duty for Learning: Fostering Social Connection
When most L&D professionals think about social learning, it is with an emphasis on learning. We know people learn through social modeling, discussion, coaching, mentoring and connection. For many L&D professionals, social strategies have been a means to an end—they help us accomplish or further our learning objectives. But what if we have failed to …