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Non-Mediation

Alan Weiss

I’ve been called upon, as I’m sure many of you have, to mediate disagreements within client organizations. They take everything personally, an affront rather than a disagreement.They feel poorly treated but believe it’s so self-evident that any attempt to reconcile the differences or mediate are simply rejected.

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Scrubbing Toilets or Resolving Conflict … Which Do You Prefer?

Makarios Consulting

Conflict, in the words of internationally-renowned conflict mediator Daniel Dana, is “a condition between two people in which at least one feels angry, resentful, hostile, etc., However, just like scrubbing toilets, dealing with conflict is a necessary activity. And, like scrubbing toilets, it is necessary a lot more often than we would like.

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Dealing with Ambiguity at Work: 1 Tool You Need

Organizational Talent Consulting

Evidence from a global study by Gallup revealed that 49% of leaders and 42% of non-managers struggle with anxiety at work. Role ambiguity increases non-productive conflict and employee burnout even when a team has good working relationships. So, how can you reduce workplace ambiguity? References: Amiruddin, A.

Tools 85
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"Process Mining"? Sounds Like a Waste of Time.

Markovitz Consulting

The software captures information and transactions as they flow through the company, and makes visible how long that (computer-mediated) work takes. And finally, one last benefit of process mining: Process mining also contributes to reducing non-value-add activities and eliminating manual reporting efforts. Continuous improvement?

Software 124
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Finding Surprising Success by Supporting Interesting Failure

Organizational Talent Consulting

While this approach results in high-quality and low-cost products and services, the hidden financial and non-financial costs of avoiding failure are severe. Fear of failure as a mediator of the relationship. Avoiding failure in the workplace reinforces continuous improvements over innovation. How Nelson Mandela responded to failure.

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The New Science of GoalSetting and Achievement

Rick Conlow

Lack training, People are non-committal, Certain goals conflict with one another. Mediation or prayer. Burton completed research, The Hazards of Goal Pursuit, for the American Psychological Association. They found key reasons for difficulties in goalsetting. For example, here are the top six: If people are not ready. Regular exercise.

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Internal Strategy: Lessons Learned (2 of 2)

Tom Spencer

While I’m certainly not suggesting internal strategy is a cushy 9-5 job for someone looking for work-life-balance, I’d like to warn that it can from time-to-time feel like non-value adding work that doesn’t make an impact. Whether you like it or not, you must realize that in a financial institution, to rise you must run a business.