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April 19th, 2024

April 19, 2024, Michael Gregory’s Weekly Leadership Round-Up

Leadership, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution  
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April 15th, 2024

How can you achieve leadership?

What is a LEADER in contrast to a MANAGER? In short, leaders influence others to accomplish a mission. By comparison, managers coordinate tasks to achieve goals, focusing on processes, workflow, operations, and employees. As a mediation and negotiation specialist focused on conflict resolution and collaboration, I work with leaders to enhance their and their teams' skills. I am offering five categories of action items to help you and the people around you develop your leadership skills.
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April 12th, 2024

April 12, 2024, Michael Gregory’s Weekly Leadership Round-Up

Leadership, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution  
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April 8th, 2024

What are the seven keys to avoiding and resolving conflict?

As a mediation and conflict resolution specialist and with my books The Collaboration Effect and Peaceful Resolutions, I recently conducted additional research on this topic.  Stepping back and looking at the big picture, I wanted to share with you what I see as the seven keys to avoiding and resolving conflict. These are authentic connecting relationships, listening actively, practicing empathy, avoiding blame, using “I” statements,  having clear boundaries, and taking a break. These are each elaborated on in this commentary.
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April 5th, 2024

April 5, 2024, Michael Gregory’s Weekly Leadership Round-Up

Leadership, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution  
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April 1st, 2024

What is a negotiation?

Not everyone is a great negotiator, and even good negotiators can improve. With more than 2,500 mediations and negotiations under my belt as a mediation and negotiation specialist, I offer some ideas to help you sharpen your skills.
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March 29th, 2024

March 29, 2024, Michael Gregory’s Weekly Leadership Round-Up

Leadership, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution  
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March 25th, 2024

How can you resolve conflict safely from a psychological perspective?

We are highly emotional beings. As a mediation and conflict resolution specialist, I accept that our brains are 2% to 10% rational and 90% to 98% emotional. Knowing this, the psychological implications related to conflict resolution are significant compared to the sensible computations involved in most conflicts. So, how can you have psychologically safe conflict resolution? That is what Dayna Lee-Baggley, PhD, and Ronald E Pizzo posed in this article in Psychology Today. What follows is an elaboration of key points from my experiences following a read of their article. 
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March 22nd, 2024

March 22, 2024, Michael Gregory’s Weekly Leadership Round-Up

Leadership, Collaboration, Conflict Resolution  
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March 18th, 2024

This is how to address the three major types of conflict

As a conflict specialist in negotiation and mediation, I want to share with you the three major types of conflict and how to address each. These are task conflict, relationship conflict, and value conflict. A recent Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation article focused on this topic. This article summarizes key points and expands on this topic to give you additional pointers that will help you in these areas. Each type requires targeted conflict resolution tactics. Let us look at each type separately.

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