Can You Lead in Emergencies?

Can you lead in times of emergency?  Don’t think that's for someone else.  Life exempts none from th...

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Attacker Spreads Hate, Finds Mercy

The NY Times carries a gripping account about vandalism by young whites against a mosque in Texas.  ...

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What Not to Say After Violence

An Important Choice: What to Do and Say After Violence? Whenever violence takes place as a result of...

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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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Two Conflict Style Workshop Designs

Trainers often ask: how much time to budget for a conflict styles workshop?   It depends! Traditiona...

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How Does Conflict Style Shape Destiny?

I spent much of the last month writing new text for the score report of Style Matters. That’s the 10...

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Too Ticked to Talk Nice

  You can't do conflict resolution without doing anger management. Anger is an emotion that eve...

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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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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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Trainers Guide to Conflict Styles

  Just re-released: my Trainers Guide to Successful Conflict Styles Workshop. Now 38 pages in the 20...

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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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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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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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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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Conflict Styles Training at Distance

[Written three years before the pandemic, this post is more relevant than ever now that most trainin...

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Conflict as Spiritual Path

Conflict style awareness is truly useful in day-to-day management of differences.  It's easy to lear...

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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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Use This Powerful Force for Change

By adopting practices of interaction largely stripped of symbols and moments to engage Depth, we cut...

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Two Step for Conflict Avoiders

When voices rise and conflict escalates, do you step forward and engage?  Or step back and assess? T...

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Intro to Conflict Styles Podcast

Organizational psychologist and podcaster Meisha Rouser has posted an interview, "Exploring Conflict...

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