Category Archives: Conflict Management Coaching
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
Telling the Truth in Conflict
Leo Tolstoy said in Tolstoy’s Diaries: “The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn’t gold.” One of the reasons I like this quote, when applied to conflict, … Continue reading
Listening Through
Two wonderful friends and colleagues of mine, Kate Sharpe and Jeanie Nishimura, wrote a terrific book last year entitled When Mentoring Meets Coaching: Shifting the Stance in Education (2016, Pearson Canada Inc., Toronto, Canada). The authors provide a great resource … Continue reading
Changing Your Direction in Conflict
Another favourite quote of mine is by Lao Tzu: “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” Though this applies to so many things in life, when it comes to conflict I find it … Continue reading
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