Reading Time: 2 minutes This the 2nd part in a series of blogs designed to help you prepare for your own negotiations. Find the first blog here. Conflict is a normal and inevitable part of life. Conflict occurs when someone acts or fails to act in a way that...
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: 3 minutes Before we deal with a challenge, we need to understand it. Here’s a simple premise to help with that: All conflict exists in our stories of the past about what happened to us and what we made it mean. When we bring that story with all its pain,...
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...