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Conflict Resolution Tips: The Power of Patience

The Recovering Engineer

I have noticed that people who are able to successfully resolve conflicts generally exercise great patience with others, with themselves, and with the process of reconciling differences. Related posts: Exercise Your Power of Choice in Conflict Resolution. Share this on del.icio.us. Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Data Tells and Stories Sell

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Early in my career, I worked in the plastics industry as a process and product development engineer. I really struggled to understand why we did some of the things we did to modify our products and processes. I had a pretty good technical background, and I knew almost nothing about polymers. It was nice. It helped a little.

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Data Tells and Stories Sell

The Recovering Engineer

Early in my career, I worked in the plastics industry as a process and product development engineer. I really struggled to understand why we did some of the things we did to modify our products and processes. I had a pretty good technical background, and I knew almost nothing about polymers. It was nice. It helped a little.

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Effective Communication: What DO You Want?

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In this post, Kevin makes a great point we can all learn from the campaign process that those of us in the United States have been watching for the last few weeks. To illustrate the power of this tip, imagine a young child walking across your kitchen with a cup of milk. The second, and more powerful statement, says what you DO want.

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Group Problem Solving - Give People a Chance to Talk | Guy Harris.

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In the process of looking over my notes and thinking through the planned events tomorrow, I started reflecting on a meeting that I facilitated for a client in Indiana last week. Remember – I built the agenda, and I started to get frustrated with the process. Graphic by www.lumaxart.com.

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Can Every Conflict Be Resolved?

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It is incomplete in that people often ask the question with an unspoken assumption about the outcome of the resolution process. Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor. The question does have one problem though — it is incomplete. By adding the criteria that the relationship is preserved, the answer changes from yes to no.

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Flexible With People and Rigid With Timelines

The Recovering Engineer

They include construction, computer system, computer software, marketing, web development, book writing, process improvement, and plant expansion projects. Conflict Resolution Tips: The Power of Patience. I have also attended workshops and read books on project management. Related Posts Twenty-seven Years and Lots of Relationships.