{"id":6520,"date":"2016-05-14T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2016-10-22T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:35:37","slug":"crucial-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=6520","title":{"rendered":"Crucial Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished listening to:<\/p>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">Patterson, Kerry, and Joseph Grenny. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-Enhanced-ebook\/dp\/B005UQYKVE\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1463061203&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Crucial+Conversations\"><i>Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition<\/i><\/a>. 2 edition. New York: Business, 2011.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were many helpful suggestions in the book. Here are some questions I need to ask myself during crucial conversations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do I really want?<\/li>\n<li>Am I engaged in silence, violence, or dialogue?<\/li>\n<li>How can I make this conversation safe?<\/li>\n<li>What stories am I telling myself about this person that are\u00a0skewing my perspective?<\/li>\n<li>What is the common ground we share on this topic?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Perhaps you have read it, or another book similar to it. What would you add?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished listening to: Patterson, Kerry, and Joseph Grenny. Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition. 2 edition. New York: Business, 2011. &nbsp; There were many helpful suggestions in the book. Here are some questions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=6520\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-1Ha","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6520"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}