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Is a Professional Facilitator Right for Your Corporate Event?

Organizations invest a lot of time and money when they get away from the office for a day or two to focus on long term planning or other crucial needs. You want to make sure this event is successful, and a neutral facilitator will help you do that.  Many factors are involved in a successful…

February 26, 2024
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Listening Effectively to Resolve Conflict

Acquiring ‘good listening skills’ is emphasized in most of our lives in our very first years of school. However, an overly technical approach to this topic can give it a shallow cliché feel. But the art of listening is truly one of the foundational elements of building and maintaining relationships, as well as exercising leadership….

February 14, 2024
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Beyond Toxic Positivity

When people are experiencing conflict, friends and family may urge them to stay positive. But as organizational psychologist and author Adam Grant points out, positivity can be toxic. In hard times, urging people to be positive doesn’t boost their resilience. It denies their reality. People in pain don’t need good vibes only. They need a…

February 13, 2024
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How Negative Self-Talk Plays a Role in Conflict

We have about 70,000 thoughts per day, and around 85% of those thoughts are negative. That much negativity is bound to have an effect on your mood, productivity, and perceived self-worth. Negative self-talk is more than just your inner critic. It can be any thought you have in which you denigrate yourself, put yourself down,…

January 29, 2024
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How Conflict Behaves Within Different Contexts

When it comes to confronting conflict, there is a wide array of valuable tools and tactics available for mediators, conflict managers, and individuals to learn and employ in the face of growing tensions. However, to see a conflict only in the moment it arises is to see it out of context. The norms and structures…

January 17, 2024
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Perception, Feeling and Action as Conflict Frameworks

Frameworks help analyze conflict, and the deeper our understanding of conflict, the greater our ability to handle it effectively. Like the steel girders in a skyscraper, a framework gives conflict shape. How we view conflict will impact our attitude and approach to it. One framework for analyzing conflict, as described in “The Dynamics of Conflict…

December 19, 2023
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