(42c) Silence Fails: Crucial Conversations for Successful Leadership

An organization's success is determined by how well people execute on its high-stakes projects and initiatives. However, current execution trends are anything but promising. According to recent research: ? Fewer than one in three critical initiatives will achieve intended goals, and almost half are deemed outright failures. ? 83 percent of employees say they are working on projects, programs, and initiatives they believe will fail. ? Companies' collective inability to execute on major projects costs hundreds of billions of dollars each year. The good news is that these failures are predictable?and therefore, preventable. In the groundbreaking study, Silence Fails: The Five Crucial Conversations for Flawless Execution, VitalSmarts and The Concours Group found that project failures are almost always preceded by conversation failures. Learn to step up to these five crucial conversations and improve results through better decision making, higher quality project execution, and more engaged leadership.

In this interactive presentation, you will learn skills for engaging more effectively in these emotionally and politically risky conversations.