Four Tips to Navigate a Difficult Conversation at Work

Four Tips to Navigate a Difficult Conversation at Work

Although you can’t control the outcome of a difficult conversation or meeting at work, you can take inner action to support an effective conversation and a good outcome. A brand new coaching of client of mine was facing a difficult workplace meeting before we could...
Avoiding a Conflict Debt at Work

Avoiding a Conflict Debt at Work

Conflict debts at work are hard to pay down It is natural and human to want to avoid or dodge conflict at work or anywhere, but relying too heavily on avoidance can create a “conflict debt” that is very hard to “pay down.” In Liane Davey’s excellent article, “ An...
Three Common Ways Conflict Shows Up in Organizations

Three Common Ways Conflict Shows Up in Organizations

Conflict in businesses and organizations can show up in at least three different ways. Recently, I was called in to consult with the board of a volunteer service organization experiencing some serious problems with internal conflict. As in many organizations, they...
Lost in a Conflict Story

Lost in a Conflict Story

You can’t heal a conflict if you get lost in your own story. You can’t heal a conflict if you get lost in your own story. My conflict coaching clients are far more likely to have a successful resolution or positive change in their conflict, when I can help them...
Effective Conflict Management versus a Quick “Fix”

Effective Conflict Management versus a Quick “Fix”

Photo by Daniel Hjalmarsson on Unsplash Effective Conflict Management versus a Quick “Fix”Sometime potential individual clients or institutions and organizations who want to hire me are looking for a quick fix for their longstanding conflict management problems. They...