Unlock Your Potential with SUNY CPD and Crucial Learning!

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership between SUNY CPD and Crucial Learning (formerly Vital Smarts)! This collaboration brings you exclusive access to top-tier, self-paced online professional development programs at discounted rates.

Image depicting the different crucial learning courses available. Crucial conversations for accountability, Crucial conversations for mastering dialogue, The power of habit, Getting things done and Crucial influence.

Why participate in this program? 

  • Flexible Learning: Study at your own pace, anytime, anywhere.
  • Expert Content: Courses designed by industry leaders to enhance your skills and career growth.
  • Exclusive Discounts: Special rates available only for the SUNY community.
  • Learning Community: Optional online webinars are included for you to connect with other SUNY colleagues to talk about course content, practice concepts, and share how others are utilizing the skills. 

Who Should Take These Courses?

  • Professionals: Enhance your communication, accountability, and productivity skills to excel in your career.
  • Managers and Leaders: Develop crucial skills to lead your team effectively and drive performance.
  • Students and Recent Graduates: Gain a competitive edge in the job market with essential professional skills.
  • Anyone Seeking Personal Growth: Improve your interpersonal skills and achieve your personal and professional goals.

Featured Programs:

  1. Getting Things Done: Boost your productivity and manage your time efficiently.
  2. Crucial Conversations: Master the art of effective communication.
  3. Crucial Influence: Design and implement a strategy for initiatives that require change in human behavior.
  4. The Power of Habit: Learn the science behind habit formation to cultivate new personal and professional habits.
  5. Crucial Accountability: Learn to hold others accountable while improving performance.

Group Learning Options

Interested in offering Crucial Learning courses as a collaborative experience for your campus? Groups of five or more participants can enjoy a full year of course access, creating an engaging and impactful professional development opportunity.  To learn more and explore how to maximize this investment for your campus, please contact Carolyn Mattiske.

Getting Things Done - Performance & Productivity: Manage attention, energy, and workflow for greater productivity with less structure. View ‘What to Expect’ video 

  • Online, Asynchronous. 1 year access
  • Audience: Individuals, Managers, Leaders, Faculty, Department Chairs
  • GTD teaches participants a set of skills following the CCORE system to improve focus and team productivity: 
    • Capture—collect everything that owns a piece of you
    • Clarify—make decisions about what you’ve captured
    • Organize—park your stuff to make doing easier
    • Reflect & Engage—trust your choices
    • Renew through Review—review weekly and get perspective
  • Pricing:
    • $223 CPD Member Price
    • $250 SUNY Member Price

Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue - Communication: Dialogue: Turn disagreement into dialogue by speaking up candidly, respectfully, and quickly. View ‘What to Expect’ video 

  • Online, Asynchronous. 1 year access
  • Audience: Individuals, Managers, Leaders, Faculty
  • Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue gives people the skills to step into disagreement—rather than over or around it—and turn disagreement into dialogue for improved relationships and results. Participants learn how to:
    • Make even the riskiest topics safe for discussion
    • Create psychological safety where people can share meaningful input on important matters
    • Talk to anyone about almost anything
    • Speak persuasively, not abrasively when the stakes are high and opinions vary
    • Learn how to turn disagreement into dialogue and conflict into collaboration
  • Pricing:
    • $272 CPD Member Price
    • $300 SUNY Member Price

Crucial Influence: Design and implement a strategy for initiatives that require change in human behavior. View ‘What to Expect’ video 

  • Online, Asynchronous. 1 year access
  • Audience: Managers, Leaders, Department Chairs
  • Leaders will learn how to leverage and apply the Six Sources of Influence to drive real results. Working with a real-world influence challenge, leaders will learn:
    • Leadership is influence – Learn the keys to influence and transform the way they lead.
    • Focus on behavior – Target behaviors that will generate the results they want.
    • Diagnose – Understand why behavior change seems (nearly) impossible.
    • Engage six sources – Engage all six sources of influence to make change inevitable.
    • Putting it all together – Use the Six Sources of Influence to create and
      sustain behavior change.
    • Next steps – Create an action plan for practical application.
  • Pricing: 
    • $272 CPD Member Price
    • $300 SUNY Member Price

The Power of Habit - Performance & Habits: Learn the science behind habit formation and cultivate new personal and professional habits. View ‘What to Expect’ video 

  • Online, Asynchronous. 1 year access
  • Audience: Individuals, Faculty
  • Some of the skills participants will learn in The Power of Habit Online include:
    • Identify when habits are the cause of poor results or limited performance
    • Discover the hidden factors that reinforce habits
    • Replace ineffective behaviors with effective ones and make them easier to do
    • Engineer environments so they are conducive to building desired habits
    • Uncover deep-seated beliefs that underlie habits and revise them for easier habit change
    • Identify and implement the right rewards to increase personal motivation
    • Handle hurdles and setbacks without getting discouraged
    • Design and stick to a strategy for turning a new behavior into a habit
  • Pricing:
    • $223 CPD Member Price
    • $250 SUNY Member Price

Crucial Conversations for Accountability - Communication: Accountability Resolve problems of poor performance, broken commitments, and violated expectations. View ‘What to Expect’ video 

  • Online, Asynchronous. 1 year access
  • Audience: Managers, Leaders, Department Chairs
  • Crucial Conversations for Accountability empowers learners to candidly and respectfully manage performance at all levels of their organization. Participants learn how to: 
    • Coach people through behavior challenges in ways that are supportive rather than coercive
    • Candidly and respectfully hold people accountable for lapses in performance—no matter the other person’s power, position, or authority
    • Help people identify and achieve goals and get back on track when performance falters
  • Pricing:
    • $272 CPD Member Price
    • $300 SUNY Member Price

Crucial Learning Courses – Refund & Substitution Policy

Please note that all registrations for Crucial Learning courses are final.   No refunds, substitutions, or deferrals will be granted. This policy is in place due to licensing requirements and the immediate access provided upon registration. We appreciate your understanding and commitment to this professional development opportunity.