The Four Conversations Workshops
“Realizing your goals will take more than passion, vision, and commitment: it will take talking to other people. To be successful, your talking must accomplish more than simply following the rules of well-mannered communication skills. Getting more of what you want and less of what you don’t want—in work and in life—depends on how well you use four types of conversations.”
The Four Conversations Workshops are based on the ideas contained in the book “The Four Conversations: Daily Communication that Gets Results” and are available in formats that range from a half day to two days. Each workshop is designed to give participants the ability to effectively use the four conversations in their day-to-day work interactions.
CHOOSE A FORMAT
Shorter format workshops (4 hours) provide participants with a basic understanding of the four conversations, the ingredients that make them effective, and how unproductive conversations slow things down and limit success. Participants leave with a basic understanding of the four conversations and what they can do to enhance their effectiveness using them.
Longer format workshops (1 or 2 days) allow for a deeper understanding of the conversations plus practicing their use on the real situations and challenges participants confront. Participants engage in a variety of exercises that strengthen their ability to identify which conversation(s) or conversational ingredients they are currently missing and how to include them. They practice how and when to use each conversation, discovering how to remove limitations to success and to build greater credibility, trust, accountability, and effective working relationships. They are also trained in the practices needed to support their continued success in using the four conversations.
Click here to see a typical outline of the Long and Short Formats.
PARTICIPANT COMMENTS
“What you learn in The Four Conversations Workshop can be put to immediate use by anyone taking this course because it focuses on clear, concise communications that get results. Whether you are launching a new idea or project, looking to understand an issue, trying to get something done, or are giving praise and acknowledgement, The Four Conversations Workshop shows you how to accomplish those objectives using a simple, yet effective approach. After taking this class, I was able reach out to my employees using closure conversations to acknowledge them for successes they have achieved on numerous projects; something that had been lacking in my approach before taking The Four Conversations Workshop. This course has helped me move to a higher level in effective conversations!”
Peter J. Celone
Associate Director for Program Operations
Atlantic Ecology Division/NHEERL/ORD
US Environmental Protection Agency
SCHEDULE A WORKSHOP
Schedule a workshop for your organization, meeting, or conference by emailing Jeffrey Ford or calling him at 614-292-4563
