Category: Blogs – Collaborative

Is an apology necessary before you can forgive someone?     Absolutely not. Of course, forgiveness is a decision that only you...

Do You Need a Framework or a Formula for Navigating Conflict? I spoke with someone recently who was looking for...

The rise of remote work has brought employees and employers an unprecedented level of flexibility, but also many new challenges....

Every year I train hundreds of professionals and university students on what I call “conflict competence,” or how to accept,...

A person does not have to be particularly gifted to be able to make disagreements worse. On the other hand,...

There are many causes of constructive and destructive conflict, and we try to engage in conflict in meaningful ways. There...

“Faces always talk too much.  One line and all their plans are revealed.”  — Floriano Martins  Martins, a Brazilian poet, is not...

Carlo Ancelotti stands out as a revered and esteemed personality within the multifaceted realm of football management. A household name...

“Cheeky” is defined by the Collins English Dictionary as “slightly rude or disrespectful but in a charming or amusing way...

Arguments are an unavoidable part of life, but they’re not always bad. Whether between a parent and child, two partners,...

Operating since 2007 with the mission to build local skills for peace and promote mediation worldwide, Mediators Beyond Borders International...

I’d like to comment on a seven-day workshop I once attended in Westminster, Colorado. This experience is called “Ultimatum” and...

This post started as a response to Jen Reynolds’s comment about my Avatar Mediation post.  It has grown into this new post about AI...

It’s my job as a conflict advisor, mediator, and Boss Whisperer® coach to detect the disconnects within relationships that create...

“Won’t Someone Take Over for Me?” read a recent headline in the Business Section of The New York Times (01/05/2023). ...

As I have previously mentioned, I am in a book club which reads and discusses books about conflict resolution. The latest...

Recently, I reread three books that, as a total set, inspired me to revisit my understanding of human nature and,...

Small businesses are just as likely as large and mid-sized companies to get involved in disputes with suppliers, customers, competing...

Shoot it down! This was the rallying cry of Republicans all last week after a large balloon identified by US...

Are you required to negotiate your salary? No, but it is a good idea. Here are 3 reasons why you...

Can the TKI Conflict Model (i.e., the five conflict modes along with the assertiveness, cooperativeness, distributive, integrative, and protective dimensions) shed some...

Introduction: Conflicts happen when one party believes that another damaged or diminished their interests. When we take these beliefs to...

Choosing mediation to resolve long and complicated legal wrangles is encouraged across the legal sector and yet, in some cases,...

For those of you who are not sports/baseball fans, you may not have known (or cared) that Aaron Judge, who...

Conflict Management Coaching Blog by Cinnie Noble Hello: Here are my conflict resolutions for 2023. Again, I have had to...

Following the introduction of federal polity as provided in the Constitution of Nepal, 2015, alternative dispute resolution process and mechanism...

Interested in issues like pay equity, pay transparency, salary negotiations, and the role of gender and unions? Then, this video...

Since the early 1970s, two dimensions of the TKI have been used to plot the five conflict modes: Assertiveness and Cooperativeness (my...

A sample of over 3,000 phrases for negotiators, mediators, and judges, on more than 400 topics in the book from...

Ever since mid-March 2020, when the first U.S. lockdowns took effect as the coronavirus began ravaging the globe, the shift...