March 3rd, 2011
Turning Conflict into Cooperation
Although most people know from personal experience that the two win-lose methods of conflict resolution carry a high risk of […]
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March 2nd, 2011
Fifteen Years Later…
Tolstoy said, Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. In my experience, much the […]
March 1st, 2011
Mom, Would You Please Pass the Values Collision?
Family. You can pick your friends, you can pick your zits, and if you’re really, really good friends, you can pick your […]
February 27th, 2011
Active Listening: Internal Dialogue Edition
One of the most interesting things I got from leadership training was the ability to have much more effective conversations with […]
February 25th, 2011
Lessons in Leadership: Survivor-Style
First of all, a confession. Until this very year, I had never seen an episode of Survivor. If I recall […]
February 21st, 2011
Glop-py Days Ahead
Let’s play a game, shall we? I’m a redhead. I’m Irish. People who haven’t been through leadership training might […]
February 20th, 2011
Realistic Dialogue: People Don’t Listen
In one of my practically feline array of former lives, I taught writing. OK, I assigned, read, and offered up […]
February 18th, 2011
No Time! No Time! No Time!
A few years ago, I had a chat with a friend of mine who was going through what we now […]
February 15th, 2011
Change: Leading and Dealing
There are days when I feel for people who haven’t had the–how shall I say this?–diversity of employment that I […]
February 13th, 2011
You Can Always Go Back…
I spent an hour today listening to a friend of mine tell me how much she hates her boss and […]