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During Conflict, Do you Give Away Your Power?
Jeremiah could feel the stress building. For months I'd been listening to my boss's ranting about some production issue that hadn't gone as planned. I felt responsible as a leader and was genuinely trying to do a good job. I wanted to defend myself and explain my attempt to solve...
The Secret Sauce of Conflict Resolution
As a Leader, your ultimate responsibility is bottom line results. You watch the productivity numbers, the financial reports, and customer satisfaction surveys. With more emphasis than ever on business sustainability, it’s understandable you might be focusing more on activities than people. What might it be costing you in terms of...
7 Tips to Manage Conflict and Increase Productivity
Conflict has really gotten a bad rap. Most often, conflict is avoided which eventually leads to ugly disagreements and possibly fractured relationships. Even in the workplace, conflict often goes underground leading to denial, gossip, sick days, and good people choosing to leave and work elsewhere. But what if conflict was...
Seeing with new eyes
In the next two days between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day you may be exchanging gifts between you and loved ones. If today is a working day for you, perhaps there will be gifts exchanged between you and co-workers. You may have drawn the name of a difficult family member...
Three questions that will enrich your Holidays
Rituals. They are the practices that we have as part of Holidays that give us comfort and stability. Rituals can be special foods, practices, or most simply "just how things are done" that provide meaning and significance. Several years ago, I started a ritual with my extended family by asking...
A Mindful Gift that will never be forgotten
Are you tired of the commercial aspect of the Holidays where the emphasis is on buying gifts that people either don't need or want? Do you lack original ideas of what to buy? Perhaps you have people on your list who have everything and you are stumped as to what...
What have you been missing?
Your day starts out as any other day - hurried and busy. As you are driving to the office you are thinking about all of what you have to do today. You realize you have back to back meetings. There is no wiggle room for the unexpected. You are wondering...
How Curiosity Sparks Creativity
Have you ever seen something, but not really saw what you were looking at? Or perhaps been a part of a conversation, but didn't really hear what the other person was saying? We've all been there, caught up in our own thoughts and not really paying attention to what is...