Crucial Conversations (Third Edition) is an audiobook by Joseph Grenny, narrated by Emily Gregory and Joseph Grenny. The unabridged Audible edition runs 7 hrs 45 mins.
Publisher’s Summary
The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today’s workplace. 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.
This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. 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.
When stakes are high and emotions run strong, you have three 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.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Emily Gregory and Joseph Grenny
- Length: 7 hrs 45 mins
- Publisher: McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio
- Release year: 2021
- Audible category: Business & Careers / Management & Leadership / Mentoring & Coaching
Listener Ratings
Crucial Conversations (Third Edition) holds an average listener rating of 4.6/5 from 2035 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.6/5
- Story: 4.6/5
- 5-star ratings: 78% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
4/5 stars — “Good advice, but way too long “
This book has solid common sense advice to be more self aware during conversations, and some techniques for diffusing conflicts and getting to mutually respectful conclusions. That part is great. Getting there is tedious in this book. Lots of contrived examples that don’t seem realistic, though they claim to be.This could be a 5 star book if it had a simple summary of the techniques for easy reference, allowing listeners to bypass hours and hours of repetitive examples.
— Scott, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Applicable tools “
I appreciate that there were so many tangible examples showing how to put these tools into action— Eric Good, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Clarity, and delivery of the message was impeccable. “
Clarity, and delivery of the message was impeccable. The illustrations are relevant. The audio version is very appealing. The literature is altogether simple.— Audible customer, Audible listener
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