Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Crucial Conversations Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Crucial Conversations related project.
Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.
The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Crucial Conversations specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Crucial Conversations Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
Then find your goals...
STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track
Featuring 991 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Crucial Conversations improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 991 standard requirements:
- Are your expectations for this solution more aligned with a collection of third party services you would be responsible for managing internally that communicates directly with the website?
- Why spend all your time, effort, expense, and credibility building activity to attract new clients from the outside market when there is a much easier and less expensive way to do it?
- Are there transformational leaders who are taking responsibility for designing and helping shift the culture, in part by modeling behaviors consistent with the desired culture?
- Is management taking responsibility for the bots decisions as authorizing transactions and whether the task being automated requires little or no professional judgment?
- Is management being proactive in identifying and complying with all the laws and regulations that govern data capture, use, retention, security, and disposal?
- How can nonprofits facilitate active listening among diverse community segments with different points of view and/or a history of conflict within a community?
- When providing access to redacted emails, is it necessary to recreate the directory structure the email came from to let end users know the context?
- How does emotional intelligence, unconscious biases, and communication play a role in effectively leveraging diversity within your organization?
- Who is leading in creating high performing work teams where respectful self expression is expected and challenging the status quo is accepted?
- Which trust building processes among peers can be observed, looking at the trust management of different collaborative consumption services?
Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:
- The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Crucial Conversations book in PDF containing 991 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Crucial Conversations self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Crucial Conversations Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Crucial Conversations areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
- Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
- Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Crucial Conversations Self-Assessment
- Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
- Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:
STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy
The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Crucial Conversations projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Crucial Conversations Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Crucial Conversations project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Assumption and Constraint Log: Has the approach and development strategy of the Crucial Conversations project been defined, documented and accepted by the appropriate stakeholders?
- Cost Baseline: Has the actual cost of the Crucial Conversations project (or Crucial Conversations project phase) been tallied and compared to the approved budget?
- WBS Dictionary: Are budgets or values assigned to work packages and planning packages in terms of dollars, hours, or other measurable units?
- Team Member Performance Assessment: To what extent did the evaluation influence the instructional path, such as with adaptive testing?
- Change Request: Will all change requests be unconditionally tracked through this process?
- Schedule Management Plan: Does all Crucial Conversations project documentation reside in a common repository for easy access?
- Team Operating Agreement: What are the safety issues/risks that need to be addressed and/or that the team needs to consider?
- Quality Audit: How does your organization know that the quality of its supervisors is appropriately effective and constructive?
- Stakeholder Management Plan: What specific resources will be required for implementation activities?
- Team Operating Agreement: Are there more than two functional areas represented by your team?
Step-by-step and complete Crucial Conversations Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Crucial Conversations project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Crucial Conversations project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Crucial Conversations project Scope Statement
- 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
- 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
- 2.9 WBS Dictionary
- 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
- 2.11 Activity List
- 2.12 Activity Attributes
- 2.13 Milestone List
- 2.14 Network Diagram
- 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
- 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
- 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
- 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
- 2.19 Crucial Conversations project Schedule
- 2.20 Cost Management Plan
- 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
- 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
- 2.23 Cost Baseline
- 2.24 Quality Management Plan
- 2.25 Quality Metrics
- 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
- 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
- 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
- 2.30 Communications Management Plan
- 2.31 Risk Management Plan
- 2.32 Risk Register
- 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
- 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
- 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
- 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
- 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
- 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
- 2.39 Change Management Plan
3.0 Executing Process Group:
- 3.1 Team Member Status Report
- 3.2 Change Request
- 3.3 Change Log
- 3.4 Decision Log
- 3.5 Quality Audit
- 3.6 Team Directory
- 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
- 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
- 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
- 3.10 Issue Log
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:
- 4.1 Crucial Conversations project Performance Report
- 4.2 Variance Analysis
- 4.3 Earned Value Status
- 4.4 Risk Audit
- 4.5 Contractor Status Report
- 4.6 Formal Acceptance
5.0 Closing Process Group:
- 5.1 Procurement Audit
- 5.2 Contract Close-Out
- 5.3 Crucial Conversations project or Phase Close-Out
- 5.4 Lessons Learned
Results
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Crucial Conversations project with this in-depth Crucial Conversations Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Crucial Conversations projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- Integrate recent advances in Crucial Conversations and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Crucial Conversations investments work better.
This Crucial Conversations All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.
Includes lifetime updates
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
