Harmonize Gracefully

    Don't you love it when somebody readily agrees to do things your way?  Negotiatin...

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Tips for a Conflict Resolution Career

  Everywhere I’ve lived and worked, I’ve met people who feel a deep inner echo to the idea...

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Can We Market Peace?

 Conflict resolution and human development people could learn a lot from business marketers.  W...

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Nothing About Us Without Us

Injustice is a big problem.   But it's always a symptom of a deeper cause. Wherever people aren't ge...

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Fringe Groups at Edge of Talks

Columbia's peace process includes a problem that recurs in many national peace processes: What to do...

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Don't Resolve Conflict, Utilize It

If you like the conflict styles framework and want compatible tools to build the capacity of your or...

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Do this for Less Holiday Conflict

If you've already spent time with relatives this holiday season perhaps you've discovered things are...

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You Can't Delete Religious Extremism

This diagram contains important clues about an alternative to the widely held notion that religious ...

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Trump and Conflict Styles

We can Learn a Lot from Trump about Conflict Styles The weekend brought a textbook example of under-...

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Things fall apart. How to respond?

These are scary times, and it's not just COVID19.  Polarization is rooted now in ways not exper...

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How to Turn Insult to Dialogue

Public Insult Endangers Even If You're Not the Target Insult has become a daily aspect of life.  It'...

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Talking Stick Breaks Impasse

Big News - A Moment of Dialogue in Washington! Divided Democrats and Republicans found a way to talk...

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Train with Online or Paper Versions?

Online vs. Paper in Conflict Styles Training In conflict styles training, you have an option to use ...

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How to Lead with Less Anger

Do you use an angry voice to communicate or give instructions when a firm, even voice would do the j...

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Two-Step to Prioritize Relationship

A great move for improving your effectiveness in conflict is mastering the two-step discussion proce...

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Join our Training Series

Want to lead a conflict styles workshop? Join me on November 21 for the first in a series of short w...

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Talk to Your Angry Uncle

If like millions of other Americans, you will eat turkey on the holidays with family members on a di...

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Thomas-Kilmann, Hammer's ICSI, or Style Matters?

Trainers considering Style Matters as a conflict style inventory should be aware of two other option...

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Lead without Bullying

We're reading a lot these days about leaders who bully.  In "When the Boss is a Bully", a recen...

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Homework on Conflict Styles

  Life spares no one from conflict.  But unfortunately the word has not yet reached the schools that...

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