Relationships Matter – What’s Important about Relationships?
Why should you be so committed to those relationships that matter?
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Using Your Time – How do you better utilize the time in your day?
We all have the same amount of time every day. How can you most effectively use up your time?
Listening to Others – What does listening communicate?
Battling our enemies is always difficult. How can we better resolve conflict?
Demonstrating Kindness – The One Thing You Can Do So Others WANT to Be Around You!
Battling our enemies is always difficult. How can we better resolve conflict?
Fighting Conflict – What if we saw conflict THIS way instead?
Battling our enemies is always difficult. How can we better resolve conflict?
The “WIN” Mindset – How do you avoid it?
Being a good driver isn’t only important on the road, but also in conversation. How can you become a more responsible driver in communication?
Driving Conversation – How to be a good “Driver” in communication!
Being a good driver isn’t only important on the road, but also in conversation. How can you become a more responsible driver in communication?
Resolving Conflict
To move a conversation forward in a healthy direction so that both parties feel safe, breathe again, and experience hope, someone has to offer help first…But who goes first?
Understanding Anger
A person who is angry is angry about something … for some reason. In their anger, they communicate directly or indirectly what they are angry about. Our task is first, to listen well enough to “get it” and second, to make it clear in some way what we “get” so they know that we know why they are angry.
Here’s the challenge: when someone is angry at us, we experience all kinds of reactions that are physical, mental, emotional, and even physical in nature…
How to Listen to an Angry Person
You know the experience – so do I. You have said or done something to someone which was apparently frustrating or hurtful. You didn’t mean to (or maybe you did) but they are reacting.
Why is it so hard to listen to them? And what can we do to change that?
It’s never fun having someone angry at you. At the very least it is quite uncomfortable, and at the most it is scary. As a result, we put up our guard and our fists – so to speak. We have been hurt or misunderstood in the past and we’re not about to get hurt again. We are ready to fight back!