Change Challenger Pam shares her change plan to get a promotion in 6 months. What is your change goal? To receive a promotion within 6 months What are your crucial moments? When new, stretch assignment becomes available When discussing business accomplishments When beginning assigned lead on project What are your vital behaviors? Willingly take on …

Change Challenger Carol Ann shares her change plan to improve her relationship with her son as he manages a chronic illness. What is your change goal? Facilitating a young adult’s transition to self managed care of a chronic medical condition. Specifically, by 5/1/11, our son will be engaged in a ongoing healthcare with an appropriate …

Dear Crucial Skills, I run a city initiative to clean up garbage in the spring. Do you have any advice for influencing residents to stop littering in the first place? Fighting Litter Dear Fighting, Thank you for your community service. We each need to do our part. After all, we are the community, and the …

Dear Crucial Skills, My sixteen-year-old daughter excels academically and plans to pursue a university education to become a physiotherapist. She is a very intelligent and sensible teenager and is admired by family, teachers, and friends. However, her teacher called me with concerns about her recent behavior, attitude, and work habits. Lately, she procrastinates homework assignments, …

Change Challenger Janet shares her change plan to be on time…once and for all. I was on time for my birth, but it has been a struggle ever since. When I am on time, I feel calm and really good. When I am not – which is far too often – I feel stressed and …

Change Challenger Brennan shares how he has been both the scientist and the subject to help achieve his goals. As I’ve begun my change journey and created a plan using the Change Anything model, the thing that has most impressed me has been how important it is to be a change scientist studying ourselves. Over …

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joseph Grenny is coauthor of three bestselling books, Influencer, Crucial Conversations, and Crucial Confrontations. His fourth book, Change Anything, will be available April 2011. READ MORE Did you already blow your New Year’s resolution? You’re not alone. It turns out that fewer than one in twenty of us succeed at changing a …

Change Challenge Winner Bobby Robbins shares the process of creating his change plan and his initial success. I am pleased to announce that I am down 12 pounds since I submitted my YouTube video. This actually came as quite a shock. I have yet to implement a workout schedule and I have failed to update …

Change Challenger Eris Weaver shares her change plan and initial success using the Change Anything model. I’ve had great success with my change plan so far—even though the behavior I’m addressing is fairly entrenched. While I know a lot about behavior change, I have never applied this knowledge systematically to this particular problem. Sitting down …