It’s been a dog-focused kind of month in our home, with our two geriatric canine companions showing their age in ways that are making us a bit sad. Because they’re on my mind, here I am again with a dog story. Thanks for bearing with me…and the prize, when you keep reading, is a handy [...]
It’s Friday. And if you’re a Getting Things Done fan, Friday means it’s time for your weekly review, the time to tie up loose ends from the current week, identify and plan next actions on tasks and projects, and essentially set the stage for starting off next week in a fresh, productive way.
But what if [...]
The Conflict Management Articles Vault is a monthly feature that dips into the archives and shares still-relevant articles from one year ago:
In 7 Fears of Confronting Conflict I mused about how to confront the fear of confronting, about the Nike of Nuns, and about how to get out of self-imposed paralysis.
With Robert Burns’ famous poem [...]
Do you have young children close enough in age that sibling bickering calls upon you to referee more often than you’d like? Then Parent Hacks may have a good creative solution you’d be interested in.
In Choice Day Helps Reduce Bickering Between Competitive Siblings, Parent Hacks offers the idea of “Choice Day,” which pre-empts the [...]
Do you have days when you feel you’ve been picked clean, with little remaining part of yourself that hasn’t been pecked at? I call them my Skeleton Days, as in, that’s all that feels left of me. My friend, blogger Liz Strauss, calls them the days when “it feels like we’re in a [...]
Some of you know I’m a dog lover and that Rod and I share our home life with a giant canine named Hugo and a wee guy, Luigi. And two cats.
Hugo is a mutt, Golden Retriever and Newfoundland. A couple of weeks ago, he suffered his third idiopathic vestibular incident. It’s a mystifying syndrome without [...]
So, you want to get better at your difficult conversations at work or home. Maybe some new conflict management tools will make a difference, right?
Not quite. Formulas, recipes and active listening will only get you so far. I generally believe that most people I meet in my workshops and conflict management coaching already have [...]
