Conflict With A Stranger – What Can You Do?
Conflict With A Stranger – What Can You Do? Getting into a conflict with someone with whom you have no prior relationship is complicated. Many believe that conflict with a stranger is preferable to conflict with a friend or loved one. You have no extant relationship to ruin, after all. However, existing relationships often bring…
Amazing Grace: How Unconditional Forgiveness Assists Recovery
Amazing Grace: How Unconditional Forgiveness Assists Recovery Written by Melissa Franks. One of the biggest stumbling blocks people in recovery have to face, is forgiveness. Understanding that they, too, like everyone else, are entitled to an unmerited favor from a Higher Power to assist them when they cannot assist themselves, is a cornerstone of The…
Serious Illness can cause Conflict with family
Dealing with a serious illness often cause conflict with family members. The news of a serious diagnosis very often draws family members to the patient’s bedside. Realizing that time may be limited, relatives will often go to great lengths to be with their loved one. This closeness has the potential of providing warmth and social…
Knowing the different love languages
As most of you know, we all have different love languages. We show and express love differently. Sometimes conflict can occur when we are not feeling love from our partner. What if having different love languages was not an issue any more? What if you could say or do just the right thing guaranteed to…
How do I forgive someone who hurt me or a loved one?
Have you ever wondered “how do I forgive someone” for hurting me or someone I love? Forgiveness doesn’t mean forgetting, condoning or excusing whatever happened. It’s acknowledging hurt and then letting it go, along with the burden of anger and resentment. But this is not always an easy task. We continue to ask ourselves, “How…
Dealing with Challenging People- Use these 4 Magic Phrases to Respond to Anything!
Dealing with challenging people is not an easy task. When someone says something unkind to us, we often respond back in a reactive manner. We wish we wouldn’t go down to their level, but sometimes we do. You probably think it takes days of communication skills training to become skilled at dealing with challenging people.…
Do you try to WIN the argument or do you practice empathetic listening?
How often do you practice empathetic listening? More often than not, human beings forget about this very important tool called empathetic listening and prefer to “win” at the cost of their relationship. The urge to win the argument is very familiar to many couples but is not an effective conflict strategy. Tell me if this…
You can now teach your kids HOW TO RESOLVE CONFLICT at a young age- for FREE!
I love it when I can find tools to help kids learn how to resolve conflict. I wished I would have learned about conflict resolution when I was a kid. It would have saved me hundreds of hours of reading and training on how to resolve conflict. Kids not only play together, they argue together.…
Manage conflict in a group by using Ground Rules to stay focused on your mission
To manage conflict with a group or team, we must be able to put some kind of consistent structure or rules into place. Many good leaders and managers forget to do this and end up with some very unproductive meetings. To work together effectively, team members must be able to seek the best solution to…
Men and women differences in communication during an argument- You will love this funny flowchart!!!
Ever noticed? Men and women differences in communication? Many people don’t realize there are men and women differences in communication that sometimes lead to conflict. Women often don’t understand what men are saying and think they are being insensitive. Men don’t often understand what women are saying and think they are too emotional. Once we…