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Four Tips to Manage Loneliness and Conflict

Four Tips to Manage Loneliness and Conflict

Loneliness makes managing conflict even more difficult.  Research shows that a lonely person may experience a shorter attention span, need longer time to process information, struggle to control emotions, want to avoid conflict, and experience feelings of worthlessness.  As human beings we cannot get away from conflict.  Here are four tips to help manage conflict for the lonely people we encounter, including ourselves.

Post-Pandemic ADR:  What’s Next?

Post-Pandemic ADR: What’s Next?

What are the opportunities for mediators, arbitrators, and other ADR professionals using a short horizon of 5 or 10 years?  The last couple of years have been quite an experience and here we are, poised on the edge of what I hope will be the start of the post-pandemic era. 

Guerilla Bridge Building – Conflict Management For Leaders

First there was guerilla warfare, then the concept was expanded to non-military ideas like guerilla marketing and guerilla bloggers. Now we have guerilla bridge building.
Conflict management skills are important for a leader no matter what the job title is. Left to fester, conflict can spread in the organization, consume resources, and become even more difficult to resolve.

Build your conflict resolution skills this fall ! Reserve your place in Fundamentals of Mediation starting September 27.

“Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Unresolved conflict often results in loss of productivity, the stifling of creativity, and the creation of barriers to cooperation and collaboration.”
Build your conflict resolution skills. Register for the Mediator Education Program at Munn Conflict Resolution Services this fall.

Build your conflict resolution skills this fall ! Still space in Fundamentals of Mediation starting September 28.

According to a survey by the American Management Association, managers typically spend at least 24% of their time managing conflict. Based on my own experience this estimate seems low.
What was not included were the statistics about how many managers fear conflict or struggle to manage conflict. And then there is the impact of mismanaged conflict on other employees, on workteams and on the business itself, whatever the mission of the organization is.

Why do I Need to Know the Fundamentals of Mediation?

Whatever your reason is
Fundamentals of Mediation is an opportunity to build your practical skills to manage and resolve conflict.
Next course dates April 6, 7, 8, 11, and 12, 2016. Early registration discount until March 4, 2016.
Don’ t miss this opportunity.

Educating Mediators ≠ Educating Lawyers

“What is the difference between educating lawyers and educating mediators”?
One difference is a result of basic brain function. In general, legal education requires declarative memory whereas mediator education requires procedural memory.

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