Director Training – BL956.1

Board Leadership 956.1 – Crucial Conversations in the Boardroom

This highly interactive one-day course teaches electric cooperative directors skills for creating alignment and agreement in the boardroom by fostering open dialogue around high-stakes, emotional or risky topics—on the issues that face electric cooperatives today. Using real world co-op examples, directors will practice speaking for clarity and purpose; encourage others to do the same; and, analyze the best ideas to make the highest-quality decisions with the goal of acting on issues with unity and commitment.

KEY TOPICS

• Speaking persuasively, not abrasively
• Fostering teamwork and better decision making
• Building acceptance rather than resistance
• Resolving individual and group disagreements