Archive for September, 2009

September 28, 2009 / Conflict Resolution / Darren Good

Listening post 2 – the Indian Talking Stick by Steven Covey

I have talked about the benefits of listening with empathy in previous posts here and here. Well here is a great clip of Dr Steven Covey talking about the benefits of the Indian talking stick. The pre

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September 23, 2009 / Conflict Resolution, POLITE Model / Darren Good

Accurate questioning is fundamental to solving problems

The T in our POLITE system stands for talking. We have already discussed, how important listening is in conflict resolution and talking, or more importantly questioning, is the tool we use to both lis

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September 18, 2009 / POLITE Model / Darren Good

Conflict resolution training – don’t be too scared to use your intuition

In this post I am going to cover the I in our POLITE System. In this case it refers to intuition, please bear with me as I can get quite philosophical on this issue. In our conflict resolution traini

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September 11, 2009 / Conflict Resolution, POLITE Model / Darren Good

De-briefing is vital in improving your conflict resolution training

Those of you who have been reading my blog regularly will know all about the POLITE System we have developed for our conflict resolution training. If not here are my previous posts on positioning, obs

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September 3, 2009 / POLITE Model, Tips / Darren Good

Listening is very important when resolving a conflict

Here is my third post on the POLITE system I have developed for conflict resolution training. So far we have discussed what the P and O stand for in the POLITE system. Just as a reminder POLITE is an

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