I’m contributing this week and next over at Notes on Design, offering up a 6-part series called Dialogue Jump-Start: 5 Tips for Difficult Conversations with Clients.
The first post went up today and I hope you’ll drop by Sessions School of Design’s blog to say hello, check out their other terrific content (but fair warning: I [...]
It all started with a joke among scientists in a lab: When the women scientists experienced stress, they cleaned up the lab and bonded together over coffee. When the men were stressed, they “holed up somewhere on their own.”
That joke lead to a ground-breaking UCLA study that turned five decades of stress research on its [...]
Open mouth. Insert foot.
We all have our foot-in-mouth moments, those times when we utter words we wish, just moments later, we’d had the foresight to prevent from ever seeing the light of day. Those moments we wish we could melt into the floorboards or reverse the universe’s clock. Those moments when our colleagues, friends or [...]
A bit of light Friday Fare for you…
Many thanks to Savage Chickens creator Doug Savage for permission to reprint his cartoon. You can get your own daily dose of the chickens via Doug’s blog.
Happy weekend,
Conflict Zen by Tammy Lenski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on [...]
I recently found myself at a zoning board hearing about a cell tower proposed for my area. People in the vicinity of the proposed location, concerned about the impact on their own property values, health, and, in some cases, lovely scenic views, were asking demanding questions and airing their concerns.
The attorney for the cell tower [...]
A lot of the people around me want to change the world. My mediation students and faculty colleagues do and that’s what led us to the conflict resolution field. A lot of my clients do, as I tend to draw folks and businesses high on the social responsibility scale. A lot of my family and [...]
Have you ever uttered words you wish you could take back the minute they leave your lips?
Well, thanks to my big sister, I have discovered the product that will set all wrongs right. It’s the Wash Away Your Sins moist towelette, which my sis gave me in a gift bag last weekend. Hmmm…have I been [...]
