Category Archives: Conflict Coaching
Mind Your Own Beeswax
As a kid, I remember using the phrase “mind your own beeswax” – instead of mind your own business – as a reaction to others who were being nosy. When I recently looked up this phrase I found several things, … Continue reading
Argue for Your Limitations
There’s a quote I really like by Richard Bach. It reads: “Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they’re yours.” I think this statement applies to any limitations we place on ourselves. That is, when we are convinced we are … Continue reading
Bringing Your Best Self to a Conflict
I like this quote by Doris Lessing from The Golden Notebook: “There’s only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best.” Many of us consider doing our second best in situations … Continue reading
Crying Our Eyes Out
Recently a conflict management coaching client told me she had “cried her eyes out” about a dispute she is having with a co-worker. I have used this same expression myself when I’ve been extremely upset. On this occasion – hearing … Continue reading
Moving On After Conflict
The confusion and internal chaos that conflict can, at times, wreak on us accounts, in part, for the desire to move past it and get over it as soon as possible. Often we also want the other person to do … Continue reading
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