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Fierce Conversations illuminates the path to a new
degree of authenticity, a new way of expressing who you
are and what you believe as a person and a leader.
Susan Scott has spent sixteen years training
clients in the art of fierce conversations, empowering them
to achieve exceptional results through transforming dialogue.
As she explains, success increasingly hinges on engaging
colleagues, customers, friends, and family in ways that
interrogate reality, provoke learning, tackler tough challenges,
tap our deepest aspirations, and enrich relationships. Fierce
Conversations shows you how, with the principles, tools,
and stories to take you step-by-step through your first
fierce conversation -- with yourself -- and on to the most
challenging and important conversations facing you.
Susan Scott teaches you how to:
- Overcome barriers to meaningful conversation
- Expand and enrich the territory you explore
with colleagues, friends, and family
- Explore issues by mining for increased
clarity, improved understanding, and impetus for change
- Confront challenges with courage, compassion,
and skill
- Leverage new skills for frictionless
debate
- Handle strong emotions -- your own as
well as others'
- Build breakthrough relationships with
colleagues, clients, friends, and family.
Fierce Conversations is the master
guidebook to transforming the conversations that are central
to your success, offering opportunities for positive personal
and organizational change, greater effectiveness in everyday
interactions, a renewed sense of purpose, and a new way
of relating to people -- at work, at home, and in every
area of your life.
Susan Scott's firm, Fierce Conversations,
Inc., is an internationally recognized leader in executive
education focused on achieving results through skillful
and courageous dialogue, providing Fierce Conversations,
Fierce Leadership, and Fierce Coaching Programs for CEOs
and company leaders. For fourteen years, Scott ran think
tanks for executives through TEC International, an organization
dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and enhancing
the lives of CEOs around the world. Previously Scott served
as vice president of the Pace Network, a search firm in
Seattle, and also as regional manager for Context Associated,
a training organization headquartered in San Francisco.
Raised in Tennessee, Scott now lives in Seattle.
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