Sign Up for Free Coffee Conversations

Do you want to practice a conversation and then apply the lessons of a successful dialogue to your own conversation? Then join us for a free 30-minute Coffee Conversation. They happen about every three weeks.

Register now to receive invitations or call Tim at 1-800 822 0917

The agenda for each session is:

• 00:00:00 - We recap the basics of a Courageous Conversation, introduce the conversation topic and divide up the roles (Initiator, Receiver, Chooser, Observer).

• 00:10:00 - The two participants who volunteered to be the Initiator and Receiver practice the real-life conversation. The Chooser offers options. The Observers take notes.

• 00:20:00 - We debrief the conversation and draw out the lessons to apply to our own conversations.

• 00:30:00 - Call ends.

A few days later, a podcast of the recorded conversation is posted along with the downloadable Lessons Learned as a PDF to use in your own conversations.

Here is a recent reaction to participating in Coffee Conversations:

• Tim, I had to dash away right after the call yesterday and couldn't send an email. This was my first call. I was fascinated.
• I learned about www.freeconference.com - and just now studied their home page. Even if 20 people join, I would only pay $2.00 a minute for premium including free recording.
• I learned a great structure for role play - two players, a "chooser" (neat idea) and observers.
• I saw great courage in action - you were willing to do "improv" and play a very hard role.
• I noticed you started the debrief with "What worked well." That's smart. People can always find the flaws.
• Your set up was tremendous - telling us to jot down phrases we heard because people want to know those phrases - and you promised to put them on the web later.
• I saw how much could be done in 30 short minutes. You did a fine job juggling all the roles, keeping the time, summarizing.
• Amazing!