by Jamie Notter | Jun 25, 2010 | Conflict, Individual Development, Managing People
The title of this post, of course, is the reverse of the popular phrase, "I'll believe it when I see it." In other words, until you show me proof, I'm not sure I'm going to believe you. That is fine, and it reflects our cultural bias...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 4, 2010 | Conflict
Two of my very favorite people and thinkers about things organizational are Joe Gerstandt and Jason Lauritsen. Together they to the “talent anarchy” blog, and their most recent conversation has been about conflict. Jason’s last post is particularly...
by Jamie Notter | Jun 2, 2010 | Conflict
I was delivering a conflict resolution training program the other day, and one of the participants told me that she absolutely hated conflict. There are lots of people in this boat, of course, but I asked her more about it, and she explained that when people disagree...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 26, 2010 | Conflict, Managing People
A big part of conflict resolution is problem solving, and one of the biggest parts of problem solving is defining the problem. I was reminded of this when I came across this great comic over on this blog: We throw up our hands all the time about what's not working...
by Jamie Notter | Apr 2, 2010 | Conflict, Social Media
A very nice case study of a social media brouhaha has been developing over on ASAE's blog, Acronym. Scott Briscoe wrote what I thought was a nice post about some tricky issues related to how consultants and association executives work together, but the title of...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 10, 2010 | Conflict, Generational Diversity, Managing People
I was in Florida last week testing out a pilot training program on managing generations and conflict in the workplace. It was the first time I really combined these two topics into a training session. It’s a lot of material to cover, obviously, and it was a...