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Conflict Coaching

Do You Should On People

February 3, 2010

Great Expectations…we learn early in life that expectations can bring great joy, satisfaction and reward; and unfilled expectations can be equally disheartening and damaging to perceptions and relationships. When we live a life of expectation and build a business around expectations, we look to others to fulfill those needs. We expect our children to love [...]

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How Big Is Your Bark

January 4, 2010

We recently adopted our 2 year old dog, Lucy. We were quickly reminded that dogs have an ingrained “fight or flight” response when they feel threatened. When Lucy seems threatened by other dogs, she fights which involves lots of barking and growling. Dogs can be trained to change the undesirable behaviors with help from dog [...]

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The Gossip Grapevine Part 3 – Yellow-Bellied Cowards

December 4, 2009

In the Old West, the ultimate insult to any man was to call him a coward. Being “yellow” meant you were less than a man and you didn’t have the guts to do the right thing. One of the most infamous cowards of the American old west is Robert Ford, known as “The Coward Who [...]

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The Gossip Grapevine Part 2 – Minimizing The Negative Impact of Gossip

November 19, 2009

Old School

Why do we love to gossip? In the first post on gossip, we found out that people gossip because it is a way for them to find support, feel justified and to protect what they feel is being threatened. But regardless of the reason for gossip, it is still destructive. Gossip is here to [...]

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The Gossip Grapevine Part 1 – Why We Love To Gossip

November 10, 2009

New School

Gossip and rumors…we see it portrayed in cartoons, played out in comedy television such as The Office and Everybody Loves Raymond, and listen to tunes such as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” We even have “gossip columns” and “rumor mills” all in the name of finding the scoop.
For the most part, we have [...]

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Are You Being A Zax

September 11, 2009

As a child, you might recall reading the Dr. Seuss story called “The Zax” in which two Zax found themselves coming from opposite directions only to come face to face; neither of them were willing to budge or to change. As one Zax stated “For I live by a rule that I learned as a [...]

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