by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Workplace
It is the nasty note about the shared refrigerator that is dirty… Or that one report your colleague keeps “forgetting” to finish for you or the “yes” or “no” answers to an open-ended question. The behaviors of a passive...
by admin | Mar 3, 2016 | Crowning Communications
The cranky lady at the cash register, the difficult and critical colleague, the controlling boss…they all have something in common and it’s not what you think. I have worked with some, what I thought of as real difficult people, in my years in Human...
by admin | Nov 2, 2015 | Anger
How knowing the source of your anger can heal your relationships. You know the feeling. When things get difficult, angry outbursts often lead to more confrontation or withdrawal. Anger can be productive, think of activists, or it can be destructive, and we have...
by admin | Aug 3, 2015 | Relationships
Do you remember the first few weeks in your new job? Were you the one asking all the questions? Or did you dive in and give your opinion of how the job supposed to be done? Either way points out our individual strengths and the way we cope and manage tension in a...
by admin | Feb 11, 2015 | Conflict
Have you ever started a campfire that ended up being this annoying smoking pile of wood? It was a struggle to keep it going, because you’ve used wet fire starters or choked it with big blocks of wood? Well, I have. In all the years of camping, I’ve learned that it...
