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"To measure your skill level and see how Crucial Confrontations can best serve your needs, candidly review the following statements. Check "Yes" if they apply to you. Check "No" if they do not. The following questions explore how you typically respond when you're in the middle of a stressful situation."

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"Use this self-assessment tool-based on the Organizational Profile section in the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence-to measure your organization against others that have taken the challenge. "

"Valuing Workforce Members and Partners An organization's success depends increasingly on an engaged workforce that benefits from meaningful work, clear organizational direction, and performance accountability that has a safe, trusting, and cooperative environment. "

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Changing one's behavior is one thing; it's keeping it changed that's often the real challenge, particularly when it's something we "know" we have to do. Using principles of Constructive-Developmental Theory, Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey developed a personal development process that allows individuals and teams to overcome their "immunities to change" and achieve the personal goals that are most important to them. The heart of this immunity to change™ process is constructing a four-column "change map" that not only outlines your personal development goal but also reveals the hidden commitments that have been getting in the way of you achieving your goal.

Understanding the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of other people - social perspective taking - plays an important role in the classroom experience.

"Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. "

"7 Things You Should Know About Agile Development"

Only focus on the first four minutes to grasp the concept

Resources on: Participatory Action Research Summary Articles - Part 1 & 2 Toolkit for Conducting Focus Groups

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