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Reading Time: 2 minutes This the 4th part in a series of blogs designed to help you prepare for your own negotiations. Find the first blog here.  In preparing for your negotiation, you have decided to explore your own role in the impending story of conflict. This work...

Reading Time: 2 minutes For over 30 years I helped people resolve conflicts as a mediator and arbitrator. Unfortunately, many of these interventions occurred late in the conflict after much of the damage had been done. I saw families and friendships torn apart,...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Conflict is a normal and inevitable part of life. Conflict occurs when someone acts or fails to act in a way that blocks our access to something that is important to us. It is an event that occurred in our past that we bring into the present...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Conflict is inevitable and everywhere. It takes courage to acknowledge you have conflict and even more courage to look past fault and blame to your own role in creating that conflict. This fact of life is often felt in our close relationships....

Reading Time: 2 minutes I have spent over 30 years designing mediation and ADR processes for complex, multi-party cases. I’ve often been asked by lawyers or their clients, “Why should we mediate when negotiations have stalled, and we already know what the other side...

Reading Time: 2 minutes When is mediation most effective? When we bring our stories of pain, suffering and fault into the present moment we find ourselves trapped in conflict. Beliefs about right and wrong are closely tied to our identity and values. When we feel that...

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the Bailey Family story, we explored what can happen when conflict takes over in a family. (https://www.fullspectrumleadership.com/the-bailey-family-a-family-in-conflict/)  The siblings’ school yard conflicts resulted in a refusal to...

Reading Time: 4 minutes “Breath on a mirror. If it fogs over, you have conflict.” This phrase signifies an undeniable fact of life: that conflict is inevitable and everywhere. How we manage our conflicts will have a tremendous impact on our personal and business...

Reading Time: 5 minutesPlanning a Successful Wealth TransitionBy Cindy Radu and David GouldWhat do you know about the importance of a successful wealth transition?When a wealth transition is not planned successfully, it can put a family in conflict and send them into...