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Increasing Communication by Being Honest
Feelings of resentment build up in many relationships because one side feels disrespected, slighted or unappreciated. This is human and normal. The problems begin when the one that feels slighted, does not express what is going on for them. They let the resentment...
Honing Your Leadership Skills: Shakespearean Style
As an audience, we were in for a real treat at the recent Boston Book Festival. Richard Olivier, son of Sir Laurence Olivier, not just told, but showed us that what worked 400 years ago also has great power in today’s business climate. So are we now talking about...
Using Forgiveness to Increase Communication
Sometimes you just have to let it go. If you can look at the situation and determine the person or group in question had no bad intentions and you have expressed how you feel, you have to ask yourself how important it is to hold on to the resentment? Some people are...
Getting Real About Workplace Wellness
Using Values to Resolve Conflict
Values are neither right nor wrong; they are simply things we believe in strongly. Values can include things like freedom, power, exploration, determination, loyalty, creativity, stability, wealth or acceptance. We often unknowingly step on other people’s values...
The Changing Priority of Wellness
Where would you rather have the majority of your resources spent - in wellness and prevention or in sick care? Which do you think would serve you better? These questions are designed to be eye-openers in the discussion that is thankfully moving more and more to the...
Conflict Resolution through Images
Define the Image That Represents Your Relationship Think of how things are in your relationship with co-workers or your team right now. If you had to describe each individual relationship using an image, what would that image look like? Some examples my clients have...
Redefine “Minding Your Business”
Imagine this: You are sitting in a meeting. You follow the conversation fully absorbed, noticing that a few of your colleagues whose eyes are focused on incoming texts are less connected. Judgment falls away and instead you consider an idea that pops in your head. The...
Negotiating & Resolving Conflict: Seeing a Person as a Person
I look at what is going on in our government and I am saddened. Our elected officials see to only see Blue or Red. They have stopped seeing “the other side” as a person. There is no human connection to the delegates across the isle. Physically they are separated in...
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