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Vital Skills International - Providing Crucial Conversations Training


	VSI was created as the result of a long-term relationship between the two founders, Dan Brunet and Doug Finton. While serving as the head of training and development for an international company during the late 80s, Doug was one of Dan’s clients. After Doug left the organization to start his own company, they continued to work together collaborating on various projects. Dan introduced Doug to Crucial Conversations®, a New York Times best selling book and seminar from VitalSmarts, LC. Doug quickly recognized the congruence of this work with the values that he espoused throughout his career and became a passionate believer in the body of work developed by the founders of VitalSmarts. From that point on, it only made good sense to join forces, re-focus our mission, create a new organization, and dedicate ourselves to the work of bringing these extremely high impact offerings to a larger universe. VitalSmarts, LC is a world leader in leadership training and organizational performance. The principals, Al Switzler, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Kerry Patterson, have researched methods for bringing about systematic and lasting change. The founders are also co-authors of the best-selling business books, Crucial Conversations® and Crucial Confrontations™. As Principal Associates of Vital Smarts, Vital Skills International, LC is among a small select group of organizations across the U.S. that are providers of the VitalSmarts award winning programs. Dan’s relationship with the founders dates back to the mid 90s. Our vision is simple. We are committed to helping organizations and individuals achieve the results that are most important to them, by using a set of skills that will enrich people’s personal and professional lives!

As an executive consultant in the field of Leadership Development, with more than 25 years of his own management experience, including nearly a decade as president of companies experiencing rapid growth and change, Dan Brunet combines the practical acumen of a business leader with the in-depth expertise of a facilitator and master trainer in productivity and performance improvement systems.

He has provided consultation and training for major corporations in the automotive, banking, manufacturing, health care, education, government, and public utility fields. He has also worked with many non-profit organizations helping them work toward the fulfillment of their mission.

Before establishing his own consulting firm, Performance Priorities, Inc., in 1989, Dan served as a management consultant/process facilitator for Wilson Learning Corporation. In this capacity, he provided customized training and skill building programs helping corporate clients achieve measurable improvements in their employees' leadership skills, interpersonal business relationships, change management, labor/management relations, and negotiating skills. He is recognized in the business community for his ability to help others lead in an increasingly complex business environment.

In his capacity as Managing Director, Dan works with many clients, helping them with strategic planning, meeting productivity, team building, and overall leadership skills development. He has worked with both labor and management personnel and is a certified Crucial Conversations trainer. Dan and his business partner Doug Finton are Principal Associates of Vital Smarts, LC.

Dan's many years of experience in the business world help him bring to his clients the ability to connect ongoing adult learning to the everyday work environment.

Doug Finton has been working in the field of Leadership Development, Change Management and Team Effectiveness for 20 years. His clients include organizations of all kinds: for-profit and not-for-profit; from automotive, accounting, and air traffic controlling, to universities, healthcare systems and organizations dedicated to nonviolence. In their service, Doug has designed and delivered Leadership Development trainings, coached executives, worked with teams, and facilitated Management meetings and offsites on a broad variety of topics.

Formerly head of Management Training and the Strategic Learning functions of the German and U.S. operations of the Volkswagen Group, Doug founded Doug Finton & Associates, Inc. in 1996 to bring his skills in promoting positive change to a broader client base. He works internationally, consulting, training, and speaking in a variety of settings to fulfill his mission of supporting results-focused processes of renewal and self-generation for individuals, teams, and organizations.

As a systems thinker and founding member of the Midwest Society for Organizational Learning, Doug's practice has been particularly focused on promoting dialogue, and increasing clients' effectiveness at skillful dialogue. In the past few years, he has devoted himself to using VitalSmarts'™ Crucial Skills body of work as a lever to help client systems get unstuck and obtain the results they want.

Doug is a Principal Associate of VitalSmarts, a Master Certified Crucial Conversations® and Crucial Confontations™ Facilitator. He and his wife reside in Michigan.

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A very small and lucky portion of the population is able to communicate effectively; these are people who are able to meet problems head-on and do not shy away from confrontations; they are people with exceptional communication skills who know the value of a good talk; they are people who utilize their unique skills daily in both their personal lives and their professional lives; often, they are people who have at some point experienced, in one form or another, influencer training.

Influence training is an experience that is more and more highly valued as the world reaches new heights of communication options, seclusion, and independence. With every man out "for himself", it is not surprising that people have lost, or failed to develop effectively, the ability to confront problems and communicate issues; these are keys to living and working to one's fullest potential, yet they are keys very few of us hold.

The situation is not hopeless, however; today, skilled influence trainers, like Vital Skills International, are breathing new life into communications among individuals and workplace teams, helping teams initiate and manage those crucial conversations and crucial confrontations that are so critical to forward movement.

The mission of influencer training is exactly that: to teach individuals to hold critical conversations in a way that is productive, and to teach them the importance of doing so. The concept expands from the individual into the team dynamic; the end result is an entire organization filled with effective communicators capable of agreeing to disagree and finding a common ground while striving to move the organization as a whole forward.

Such is the nature of the work provided by Vital Skills International. Vital Skills International is a group offering influencer training for individuals, teams, and organizations, aimed at effecting productivity and change in the workplace (and in participant's private lives as well; there are no bounds to the benefits of influencer training).

The Vital Skills International Influence Training Products and Seminars are based on the proven concepts put forth in the New York Times Best Sellers, Crucial Conversations, and Crucial Confrontations. As one of only a select few approved associates of the books' authors and founders of Vital Smarts (industry authorities in influence training), the Vital Skills Team are experts with a firm foundation in the field.

Vital Skills International has used the Vital Smarts materials to train groups with a vast range of professional interests; a variety of seminars are offered to suit the express needs of clients, including

• Crucial Conversations Seminars

• Crucial Confrontations Seminars

• Vitality Series Trainings

• Crucial Conversations Labs

The focus of each training is to enhance personal and professional performance by teaching participants how to hold and manage critical conversations that must be had before progress can be made. Vital Skills International believes that the power to change everything lies in the confidence to hold critical conversations and crucial confrontations; their belief is proven in pages of research compiled in the Vital Smarts books and materials. Vital Skills is proud to provide these services to teams and organizations large and small, as they effect positive change one organization at a time.

Vital Skills International - Influencer, The Power to Change Everything, Crucial Conversations and Crucial Confrontations Training

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