DATES TO REMEMBER:

• February 21, 2024 - New Book Kickoff (1-hour meeting)
• March - Discussion Questions Distributed
• April 10, 2024 - Book is discussed (2-hour meeting)

BOOK CLUB DIRECTOR:

Jennifer Fraser is a certified Project Manager with over eight (8) years of project management experience; she is a member of our chapter and an avid reader, both professionally and personally.  She highly values curiosity by cultivating the desire to know more as well as being a life learner by actively seeking out and gaining new knowledge.

BOOK TITLE: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler | Purchase Book HERE in Different Mediums

BOOK DESCRIPTION:

When stakes are high and emotions run strong, you have three (3) choices: avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results. Whether they take place at work or at home, crucial conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again.

Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation - especially difficult ones - leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, it teaches listeners how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.  You'll learn how to: respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you; identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it; and communicate more effectively across digital mediums.

For any questions, please reach out to Bookclub@pmi-4c.org