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Taking Advantage of Conflict and Confrontation

All great relationships require constructive conflict and confrontation to grow and thrive. Influential leaders orchestrate the culture in which people can be energized, engaged, and fully aware of their meaningful contributions to the enterprise. Much of the personal and organizational

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Constructive Conflict and Confrontation

If you are listening to research coming from the Neurosciences (Brain Science) and how it relates to the complexity of today’s work environment, you will understand that it is your electro-magnetic neuro-chemical energy that creates your mindset. For a positive

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The Human Factors of Ineffective Communication

Communication starts and stops all effective collaborations. Some of the causes of ineffective communication are a mixture of both organizational and human factors. The human factors are mental, behavioural and emotional, such as the following: 1. Poor listening skills 2.

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One Bad Apple – One Bad Barrel

Many of us have heard the phrase “one bad apple can ruin the whole barrel”. This adage has been used for centuries to relate individual workplace behaviour to the ability of a rotten piece of fruit to spoil the whole

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Is Your Workplace Cooperative?

Cooperation is the act of participating, contributing, or helping to advance or accomplish a goal. It is similar to collaboration in that cooperation requires the input of many people. It is different from collaboration in that those involved in cooperation

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Transforming Connection – People First

Connection is a powerful strategy used by enlightened leaders to transform their workplaces and create dynamic and powerful teams. These teams are not only capable of weathering adversity but achieving high levels of performance excellence. Creating and sustaining positive and

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Emotional Awareness – Are You?

Twenty years ago, the idea of emotions having an impact on personal and professional success, productivity and performance was given a new name: emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence (EI), first defined in an article by psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer,

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3 Steps to Positive Confrontation

All great relationships require constructive conflict and confrontation to grow and thrive. Influential leaders orchestrate the culture in which people can be energized, engaged, and fully aware of their meaningful contributions to the enterprise. Much of the personal and organizational

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The Advantage of Conflict and Confrontation

Even constructive conflict and confrontation makes the best of us anxious for a variety of reasons that include the following: 1. Conflict and confrontation force us to be accountable. The core of a conflict or confrontation within a team is

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Keeping Conflict and Confrontation Constructive

Everyone faces it — conflict and confrontation. It cannot be avoided in today’s fast-paced workplace … but it doesn’t have to be a negative experience. We can choose it to be, well if not positive, at least constructive. The first

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