April 12, 2010 / Body Language, News, Personal Safety, Tips, Violence / Darren Good
I heard this story on the news the other day and to be honest it’s not that surprising this police officer was cleared of the charges. Even if it may be viewed by an outsider as being over zealous o
March 3, 2010 / News / Darren Good
Not listening effectively and butting in whilst the other person is speaking – I think this is one of the most underestimated things in conflict resolution. You must listen to the other person’
February 18, 2010 / News / Darren Good
I have been pretty busy during the last few weeks carefully up skilling myself and trying to become a better trainer. You might remember I wrote about my growing desire to improve my personal developm
January 25, 2010 / Conflict Resolution, News, Violence / Darren Good
In my conflict resolution training sessions I regularly teach people how to talk themselves out of a situation or read someone before they become aggressive. Sometimes unfortunately a situation can ju
January 11, 2010 / Conflict Resolution, Door Supervisor Training, Good Sense News, News / Darren Good
A belated Happy New Year to you all, 2009 was a great year for me and GoodSense Conflict Resolution Training. Overall we managed to win quite a lot of new clients and our business grew by more than 40
December 23, 2009 / News / Chris Norton
I have just read an encouraging article on Dash.com. Apparently the Home Office has reported today that the amount of football-related arrests for violence fell slightly last season. Dash.com reports:
December 18, 2009 / Conflict Resolution, NHS, News / Chris Norton
Hi my name is Chris Norton, I am the managing director of Dead Dinosaur and a serial blogger. I work with Darren on a few things and whilst he is sunning himself in Australia I promised him I would wr
November 6, 2009 / News / Darren Good
Some of you may or may not know that I although I am the managing director of Good Sense Conflict Resolution Training I am also a writer for the Alchemy For Managers Project. I write the training sect
October 22, 2009 / News, POLITE Model / Darren Good
Yesterday The Sun newspaper reported that Paul Gascoigne had allegedly head butted a bouncer whilst on a night out playing snooker. However, it could have been very different if the bouncer had follow
August 20, 2009 / Conflict Resolution, News / Darren Good
Yesterday, in the media I noticed a new report highlighting a story that NHS staff are taking an increasing amount of time off sick. According to Reuters its staff take an average of 10.7 days off sic