Category: Blogs – Facilitation

Interested in issues like pay equity, pay transparency, salary negotiations, and the role of gender and unions? Then, this video...

Workplace stress and mental illness are rising at an alarming rate. The mental health index by Lifeworks found that more...

Unmanaged conflict can result in feeling trapped and miserable at work, caught in negative looping relationships that are tit-for-tat, ripe...

Howard Herman gets parties out of battle mode in cases with complex power dynamics After 37 years, including 23 years...

Recently, I have been addressing questions about bullying behavior in the workplace and how to use the TKI Conflict Model to help...

Since the early 1970s, two dimensions of the TKI have been used to plot the five conflict modes: Assertiveness and Cooperativeness (my...

A sample of over 3,000 phrases for negotiators, mediators, and judges, on more than 400 topics in the book from...

Question:  Where does conflict come from? Answer: Normal, unconflicted life. Building on Felstiner, Abel, and Sarat’s classic article describing the...

Ministry of Law in Singapore has provided for ‘free’ mediation for wedding couples and wedding vendors that were affected by...

How did you learn to turn your mistakes into stories? This was the thoughtful question Alesia Grace Thompson asked me...

If you are interested in a highly readable, relatable, and well-reasoned book on how to live a life empowered and...

The culture of a family, community, or organization partially determines whether a given conflict mode (particularly collaborating) can be used...

Divorce agreements tell a story.  The story speaks not only of arrangements for children’s living and times spent with each...

The New York Times published a fascinating account of the plea bargaining of Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization CFO.  This was...

Review of Ellen Bruno’s Documentary Film, Split Up—The Teen Years Back in 2013, I reviewed for Mediate.com a documentary titled...

I frequently receive requests to reduce the complexity of conflict management and the TKI Assessment into a few simple “tips”...

Much of what takes place in couples, families, and other close relationships lies buried beneath layers of unspoken desire, expectation,...

Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes $392 billion of federal investments in energy and climate policies, reflects a...

Toxic co-workers or bosses can create big problems at work. As a workplace conflict transformation consultant, coach, and trainer, I...

When we think about the kinds of emotions people experience in conflict, we usually think of negative ones like anger...

Business partnerships are often stronger than sole proprietorships because two or more partners can bring diverse strengths to the table...

When you are considering a divorce, it is a reasonable question to ask whether you could stay in the same...

Misunderstandings and assumptions about what another person means, or what the word they use means, can really fuel conflicts. I’ve written...

It is common when we are in conflict, that as our emotions escalate, many of us tend to interrupt more...

I’m publishing this newsletter series to discuss the nuances of the four timeless topics for people and organizations: conflict, change,...

In this world, something outrageous is happening, conflicts are everywhere and between everyone, and it seems like those numbers are...

Hiring leaders used to mean identifying their areas of technical expertise, looking at the positions they had held, and evaluating...

Mediation is not a new concept in the Kenyan culture.  It was traditionally used to settle disputes.  It was used...

For those disputants who have found that there is no pertinent binding or legal remedy to their problems or where...

I was at a concert of the LA Philharmonic one recent Sunday afternoon to hear some ballet music, including Stravinsky’s...