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Conflicts Can Sometimes Be Averted When We Take the Position of the Caring Listener (Ezine Article)

August 20, 2020

It is easy to lock horns, sometimes with those near and dear, about opinions on favorite subjects…like religion, politics, and finances. This list is endless.

Conflict Resolution And Understanding The Cost Of Conflict (Ezine Article)

July 30, 2020

Understanding the cost of conflict is a major factor in persuading contesting parties to attempt conflict resolution and turn their conflict into collaboration. Stewart Levine in his excellent book “Getting to Resolution – Turning Conflict into Resolution” identifies four costs of conflict: direct costs, productivity costs, continuity costs, and emotional costs.

The Art and Science of Conflict Resolution (Ezine Article)

July 18, 2020

Conflict Resolution is a skill set necessary for survival in today’s business world. The ability to recognize conflict, understand the nature of conflict and to be able to bring swift and fair resolution to conflict will serve you well as a senior executive or entrepreneur.

Workplace Conflict – The Five W’s for Intervention (Ezine Article)

July 8, 2020

Jocelyn (not her real name), VP of Human Resources in a mid-size manufacturing company, was worried about a situation in one of their plants. It wasn’t the first time. She had been called into the plant several times over the past year. But this was bigger.

Conflict Resolution Skills Can Be Learned

July 6, 2020

For the majority of the population, getting into conflict is either frightening or frustrating — or both. And, like many things that scare us, we try to avoid it in the future. Here’s the simple truth: if you want the problem or conflict to go away, you have to work to find a solution. That means facing your fears, your apprehensions, and the other person and working through the conflict.

Conflict Resolution – Simple But Not Easy (Ezine Article)

July 3, 2020

Conflict resolution is, in theory, quite simple. Yet who among us hasn’t experienced times when our common sense flies out the window and even the most basic skills desert us. Those times demonstrate that conflict resolution may be simple, but is far from easy. Let’s see why.

Teach Your Children How To Resolve Conflict Without Using Anger Or Power (Ezine Article)

June 20, 2020

Teaching kids to deal with conflict effectively and peacefully is perhaps the biggest challenge facing adults today. Children’s disagreements both at home and at school can be noisy, physical and psychologically hurtful. The approach to conflict resolution learned and practised in childhood often stays for life.

Relationships – Conflict Resolution Without Words (Ezine Article)

April 30, 2020

In the last few decades, partners have spent countless hours trying to “work out problems.” Yet over and over again they often come up against a major roadblock: they just don’t see things the same way. No matter how long they talk and how hard they try, neither ends up feeling really heard and understood.

How to Teach Young Children Conflict Resolution

April 6, 2020

If you’re always there to solve the problem for them, children will never learn how to problem-solve themselves. Instead of solving their problems for them, teach them how to resolve conflicts. Only after they’ve tried to solve the problem themselves are they allowed to come to you for help. Learn how in this blog post.

Is Workplace Conflict Destructive or Creative? (Ezine Article)

March 19, 2020

Whenever you work with people, conflict is inevitable. The tension created by daily conflict either results in wasted time, decreased productivity, and poor decisions or the sort of internal competition that pushes each individual to do their best, if for no other reason that convince their coworkers that they can do it.