Deborah is very inclusive and supportive in our learning and understanding how our thoughts and behaviors can be changed to help us have better outcomes in our conflicts.
A Mediation Client
FAQ: The Conflict Doctor answers questions you ask
You know your conflict questions
In this category I answer the questions that clients and others have asked about what they can do, could have done, or might do differently or better in the future.
Conflict Managers speak of ‘hurting truces’, where the parties are so damaged that continuing the fight causes more pain than resolving their conflict would. We speak of ‘ripeness’ to resolve conflict because the cost of conflict is greater than the benefit of resolution.
Wouldn’t it be nice to manage conflict with less pain in the future? You can learn the lessons that conflict teaches you.
Ask me questions about how to do conflict better
Whether to prevent a conflict, manage your current conflict, or be prepared for the next conflict that will happen. I’ve worked for decades to help people develop their conflict competence.
While conflict teaches valuable lessons, not every life lesson is learned only through an awful experience.
Ask me how. Here’s a sample of some of the questions I answer:
- Conflict management unlimited (5/27/2018)
- Role of power in apologies (8/19/2017)
- 10 TIPS to becoming a Conflict Manager (8/14/2017)
- Kindness is my Kryptonite (11/10/2016)
- How to change other peoples’ conflict behaviour (10/18/2015)
- CONFLICT DOCTOR IS IN (4/21/2014)
- A Conflict Analysis of Why (4/20/2014)
- Role play a sustainability conflict (3/13/2013)
- Conflict management helps reduce stress (12/10/2011)
- A conflict analysis of anger (5/31/2011)
- TIPs to improve work relationships (8/22/2010)
- Conflicts from confused roles and responsibilities (7/26/2010)
- Being difficult and being yourself (5/29/2010)
- Conflict management and storytelling (1/26/2010)
- Blind Spot analysis (11/28/2009)
- Apologies have a role in conflict management (8/31/2009)
- Disappointed Expectations are a Source of Conflict (7/31/2009)
- Positive behavior models at work (4/20/2009)
- You don’t need permission to change a conflict (3/23/2009)
- Conflict is a Relationship (3/15/2009)
- It Depends: Finding balance in conflict (1/31/2009)
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