Three Tips to Prevent Communication Conflicts

The holiday season can bring out the best in people. It can also bring out the worst. Families and close friends can get into communication cycle routines. Some share their unwanted opinions on politics or religion. Others may have other bad communication habits that seem to come out in the stress and excitement of the season. To be prepared for potential communication conflict, here are a few tips.

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Take My Gratitude Challenge and You’ll Improve Your Life

Since gratitude isn't generally an automatic response, we need to consciously learn how to make gratitude a habit. And, if you feel like you are already generally the grateful type, you can get even better (and happier) with practice.

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Easy Ideas for Igniting Employee Engagement

Could you use some great ideas for how activities to engage your employees? Here are some easy, low cost ideas that have been wildly successful with the teams I've led.

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Building a Positive Work Culture Starts with Intentional Influence

Building a positive culture starts with being intentional. Here are some ways that you can influence and improve your work culture.

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Conflict Skills: How to Improve your Conversations

If daily conversations aren’t handled well, small disagreements can escalate into full arguments. Improve how you deal with conflict with these tips.

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The Communication Stuck State Cycle

When things are not going the way you want, do you keep repeating the same response or behavior but hope for, or expect, something different to happen? This is called a communication stuck state cycle: repeating the same communication cycle over and over.

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Communication and Marriage: Lessons Learned

Where did the time go? This month, we're celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary and reflecting on some of the communication lessons we have learned.

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Communication Tip: Shovel Your Piles

One of my key tips that I share is about shoveling your piles before they become larger ones. It's all about starting small, and dealing with issues as they arise rather than letting them turn in to a much bigger problem.

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