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  • You Can't Play Win-Win With A Bully Until...
    When being polite and understanding gets you nowhere, you may be trying to cooperate with a bully. It simply won't work. You must start by giving him a reason to listen to you.
  • When You're Afraid to Talk to Your Boss...
    Learning to communicate effectively at work is a common challenge. It gets easier when you recognize how your own history may be creating the mis-perceptions that are blocking your success.
  • Use Anger Productively: A 5 Step Process
    Anger is neither good nor bad! It is simply energy.
    It is your natural emotional energy that arises when you feel like something (or someone) is blocking you from getting what you need or want. Here are 5 steps you can take to direct your own supercharged energy.
  • Overcome Overwhelm: 10 Ways to Slow Down and Win --
    It's easy to become overwhelmed by overcommiting yourself.

    When you think through your agreements BEFORE you make them, it becomes much easier to stay on target, follow through and achieve success.
  • Overcome Conversation Power Plays: 5 Steps to Success
    When you know you are supposed to "just shut up and listen," and you really want to get your point across, you have options. Follow these steps to reclaim your own power.
  • Is He Trying To Control You?
    Relationship advice for women who feel like victims of controlling husbands. Discover how you are cooperating in maintaining such an unproductive relationship and explore your options for making critical changes.
  • Feedback: Listening to What You Don't Want to Hear
    If you hate any kind of feedback, because it feels like criticism, and you despise confrontation, you may be limiting your opportunities for success. Use these 10 steps to learn to extract useful information from any criticism.
  • Disarming Defensive Behavior
    Some people need to be right whether they are or not.They're so defensive, it's a real challenge to get them to address any problem. Here are a successful team leader's stratagies for sidesteping their defensiveness.
  • Conflict: Unavoidable and Potentially Positive (Part 1 of 4)
    Effective conflict intervention can help transform a conflict situation into an opportunity for change, growth and development of creative solutions to an organization's most difficult problems.
  • Conflict: The Critical Questions (Part 3 of 4)
    When you've taken on the task of helping others resolve conflict, your most important job is to know what questions must be answered to help clarify the situation. The more of these 26 questions you can answer, the more successful you will be.
  • Conflict: Steps to Resolution (Part 2 of 4)
    Although strategies for intervening in conflict can be varied and creative, successful intervention strategies do have certain themes in common. Above all, everyone involved must be treated with respect.
  • Conflict: Hazards of Helping (Part 4 of 4)
    Successful conflict intervention professionals do not "fix" things for their clients. Instead, they lead clients through the process of resolving their own issues in a supportive and effective manner.
  • An Argument About Money May Really Be About Something Else
    Almost everything you do is done for a reason, but sometimes you have to look below the surface to discover the really important hidden reason for your behavior.

    Jim was collecting evidence to support his arguments, instead of looking at what was relly bothering him.
  • A Model Husband: Why Does She Want a New Model?
    You may believe that never arguing with each other will make your relationship strong. What usually happens though, is because you're both human you have different needs and wants. If you never even notice, let alone discuss (argue about?) your different needs and wants, you may not even realize the damage you're doing to your relationship.
  • 10 Proven Steps to Defuse Criticism
    Even though you probably hate being criticized, when you receive it instead of trying to deflect it, you can defuse the criticism that inevitably comes your way. Here's how.



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