2.3 Assignment. Style Under Stress Survey Reflection
Getting Started
In Chapter 6 of Crucial Conversations, there is a Style Under Stress survey. This tool will help you identify whether you tend toward silence or violence in crucial conversations. It takes you even deeper to identify which of the three types of silence or three types of violence you tend to use most. The second half of the survey helps you understand which of the nine tools you are best at right now and which you need to work on. Self-awareness, which you will be practicing and developing in this assignment, is an important leadership principle.
Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:
- Identify your style under stress and explain how it impacts your ability to have successful crucial conversations.
Instructions
- Read Chapters 6-13 of Crucial Conversations.
- Take the Style Under Stress survey in Chapter 6.
- Calculate your scores.
- Write a 700- to 800-word paper responding to the following questions:
- What is your specific style under stress?
- How does this self-awareness inform ways in which you have responded to crucial conversations in the past?
- How might you modify your response in stressful situations so as to better lead?
- How did you score in the nine tools?
- How does this self-awareness inform how you may need to grow to lead others better in the future?
- What is one way in which you can practice one of the tools in the coming weeks?
- All papers are to be written and formatted in accordance with APA Guidelines (7th ed.). Papers must be logical, well organized, grammatically correct, and have correct spelling and sentence structure. Write in complete paragraphs of at least three sentences in length.