Closure Conversation - Management is Missing

A note from Laurie: I posted here earlier on 3 of the Four Conversations. This is the 4th, the Closure one.

I went through all my client projects from over the years, met with people to talk about them, and summarized the stories. I’ve decided to blog the “nutshell summaries” of these observations, so am leaving

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Closure Conversation Helps Get Job

Closure conversations can be used at anytime, they don’t have to be used only at the end of a project or an accomplishment.  Jason, a hospital administrator in a Columbus hospital, used a closure conversation at the beginning of his interviews for a new job at a different hospital to reduce anxiety and address an

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Best Management Book of 2009

“The Four Conversations: Daily Communication that Gets Results” was awarded Best Book in Management by 800 CEO READ.  We are very pleased to win this award and will be traveling to New York to receive it on January 25.

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Net Speed Fast Tracks knol features The Four Conversations

Net Speed Fast Tracks, a provider of management content for personal and professional development, is posting knols (small units of knowledge) on The Four Conversations.  The first one is currently available and you can read and listen to it here.

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800-CEO-READ Interviews Jeffrey re The Four Conversations

Todd Sattersten, President of 800-CEO-READ, conducted an interview with Jeffrey regarding The Four Conversations.  You can listen to the interview here.

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Using Conversations to Motivate Others

We recently had a manager, let’s call her Lisa, ask “How do I motivate the people on my team to care about the project we have?”  Interesting question, but it is misdirected.  Rather than focusing on their motivation, we told Lisa to focus on her conversations.

Motives and Motivation

Managers and social scientists have long been

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Great Review of The Four Conversations

The following review of The Four Conversations was written by 800-CEO-READ and posted on their bl0g.  It is reprinted here with their permission.  If you haven’t discovered 800-CEO-READ, we encourage you to check them out.  They are a wealth of valuable information about business books.

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Jack Covert Selects – The Four Conversations

Communication is the foundation of

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Welcome

Welcome to Using the Four Conversations!  We have created this blog as a way to be in communication with people who are using, or who are interested in learning The Four Conversations.  We will post ideas, tips, and examples so that you can develop your ability to use The Four Conversations with greater ease and

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