Leading Self

Crucial Conversations Workshop

Consider these questions:

Does your department suffer from taboo topics, deference, disagreement, analysis paralysis, information hoarding, office politics, or alienation?  Is your department battling slow productivity or low morale? Are you a supervisor who struggles with having difficult conversations with employees?  Then you, your team, or your department needs Crucial Conversations training.

Crucial Conversations is a two-day course that teaches skills for creating alignment and agreement by fostering open dialogue around high-stakes, emotional, or risky topics – at all levels of the organization.  By learning how to speak and be heard (and encouraging others to do the same), you’ll surface the best ideas, make the highest-quality decisions, and then act on your decisions with unity and commitment.

The CU Boulder Department of Human Resources has teamed up with VitalSmarts to offer this important course to CU Boulder employees. Based on the national best-selling book Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking when the Stakes are High, the Crucial Conversations course teaches participants to speak persuasively, not abrasively; foster teamwork and better decision making; build acceptance rather than resistance; and resolve individual and group disagreements. 

Sessions for Crucial Conversations

Location:  Room 346, Administrative Research Center (ARC), 3100 Marine Street

Organization and Employee Development (OED) along with campus partners introduce a Crucial Conversations Refresher program for Crucial Conversation (CC) graduates. The Refresher program will run monthly for seven consecutive months, focusing on one CC module each session. There is no cost to attend this program. All Crucial Conversations graduates are invited to join certified facilitators for an hour-long deep dive into the CC curriculum. 

Neuroscience and learning transfer theory tells us that consstently practicing new skills is the biggest predictor to successfully integrating learning into your everyday environment. The Refresher program will provide an interactive opportunity for CC graduates to practice and hone the skills and strategies presented in the original CC training.

Refresher Participants will be able to:

• Apply CC skills and strategies in a facilitated environment.
• Collaborate with other CC graduates and facilitators to enhance their application of CC concepts.

2020 Sessions Coming Soon! 

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships. EI has been shown to increase job performance, productivity, and personal excellence. Come to this 2-week series to explore this important ability and gain skills to improve your own emotional intelligence.

This is a 2 week series. Participants are asked to participate in both weeks. 

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

• Define Emotional Intelligence (EI).
• Explain the business case for developing EI.
• Recall areas of the brain involved in EI.
• Describe the four elements of an EI model.
• Apply strategies to increase emotional competence.
• Construct an action plan to improve one’s own EI.

Emotional Intelligence Sessions

Getting Things done Training isn’t just about getting more things done. It’s about learning how to be more appropriately engaged with your work and life. In this course, participants will learn and practice new behaviors to engage more effectively with their to-dos and commitments, so they can focus their attention on things that matter most and create more mental space at work and at home. Getting Things Done is a system that teaches skills to manage the constant flow of requests, tasks, and interruptions people face at all levels of the organization.  In this workshop, participants will learn powerful methods to capture, clarify and organize incoming requests to increase their focus on their most meaningful work, creating mental space for innovation, and the conditions to achieve stress-free productivity.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:

• Articulate the CCORE methodology
• Create a system to capture all to-dos and outside requests or inputs
• Direct all inputs to a few chosen capture tools
• Clarify what each input means
• Identify the very next action to move a task or project to completion efficiently
• Create a system to effectively and regularly process inputs in inboxes
• Utilize their calendar effectively to free up time
• Create and track project outcomes
• Create a trusted organization system

Who Should Attend

Staff and faculty at any level of the organization who are looking to increase their skills in workflow management and focus on the right priorities.

Location

Location: Department of Human Resources Training Center, Administrative Research Center Building (ARC) Room 346.

Instructors

Alyssa Willet, Training and Development Specialist, Organization and Employee Development, Human Resources

Suzanne Soled, Director of Faculty Relations, Office of Faculty Affairs

Lisa Nelson, Senior Training and Development Specialist, Organization and Employee Development, Human Resources

Cost

$185

Each day brings with it a new wave of urgencies that compete for our attention. Texts, emails, calls, meetings and more, all converge on our already full schedules. The result is a sense of being busy without actually being productive, which leaves people feeling burned out and unfulfilled. The sheer volume of daily distractions threatens our ability to think clearly and to make wise decisions about what is important. The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity empowers people with clear discernment to avoid distractions and to accomplish the goals that matter most in their professional and personal lives. Supported by science and years of experience, The 5 Choices not only produce a measurable increase in productivity, but provide a renewed sense of engagement and accomplishment.

Sessions for 5 Choices of Extraordinary Productivity 

2020

• Feb. 3, 5, 7; 8:30 - 12:30 pm each day
• June 22, 23, 25; 8:30 - 12:30 pm each day
• Oct. 19, 21, 23; 8:30 - 12:30 pm each day

Cost: 

• If this is your first FranklinCovey course since September 1, 2019: $145 (Cost includes All Access Pass)
• If you have attended one or more FranklinCovey courses since September 1, 2019: $35

Register for 5 Choices of Extraordinary Productivity

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Sessions for 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

2020

• March 4 & 6; 8:30 am - 5:00 pm each day 
• Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22; 8:30 am - 12:30 pm each day 

Cost: 

• If this is your first FranklinCovey course since September 1, 2019: $145 (Cost includes All Access Pass)
• If you have attended one or more FranklinCovey courses since September 1, 2019: $35

Register for 7 Habits of Highly Effective People