Blog

Friday check in: One minute and counting… So let’s review the challenge: find one moment, in every day this week, where your emotions boiled over. Maybe you’re perfect and this was completely irrelevant for you. Maybe your emotions are completely in check. However, t

Monday challenge: One minute and counting… This month is emotion month. Now you might think, “my emotions are totally in check, I don’t need this.” That might be true, but for the other 99% of us who struggle to not let our emotions eat away at us after an argument w

Friday Check in Welcome to Friday! Let’s remember the challenge of the week: Label your conflicts before they label you. Did you find that it was too much brain power before the conflict? Did you find it useful? Did things become less personal and more solvable? As mentioned on

Monday Challenge Labeling the conflict One minute and counting: Welcome to week four. I hope that there has been some progress setting in with your mindset of how to address conflict with less dread. We hate that which we fear, and conflict is often more feared than it needs to be. On

Friday check in: Just a little reminder of your Monday challenge: Do your research! Start with one situation a day. Just one. Don’t be caught in unnecessary or uninformed confrontations.  How did it go? Did you do your research? If not, why? Let figure this out. It’s an im

Monday Challenge Do nothing week. One minute and counting: Today I want to focus on the conflict before the confrontation. Vital to anyone wanting to manage tense work environments, is knowing: 1.  Their options when confronting an issue 2.   If confronting the issue is of all things,

Friday Check in A reminder of the challenge: find a confrontation that would be better addressed indirectly. This week was a bit more complex than others. Taking more effort and know – how. Nevertheless, it is an invaluable skill to be able to skirt conflict at times instead of

Monday Challenge Last week we went over whether you are a seeker or avoider of conflict. This week let’s start with the next step. One minute and counting… If you have never had conflict in the work place, you’re either dead or haven’t been employed.   It’s vir

Friday check in. Quick reminder of the challenge: find out if you’re a conflict seeker or avoider. So how’d it go? What did you find out about yourself? It probably wasn’t on your mind all week, but did you learn what kind of approach you hold to conflict? Do you avo

Last week we introduced the topic for the next few months. The vital topic is working with conflict situations. So let’s begin. One minute and counting… As we know, conflict is everywhere. Without conflict, the history of the world could all fit into a five page Word docum