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July 18th, 2018
When a dispute between employees becomes visible it usually falls to a manager to intervene but few are confident in doing this so they’ll often ignore the conflict in the hope that it’ll go away, downplay the seriousness of the disagreement, or approach it ineffectively.
Research by OPP charts the costs and benefits of conflict, and a guide from CIPD identifies the behaviours that will help managers recognise and proactively manage disputes at work.
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July 18th, 2018
Is it something in the air? How do my carefully chosen words get distorted in the short distance from speaker to listener? I never meant harm. A simple statement of fact, a remark or an observation… Anyway, that’s how I am; what you see is what you get, I can’t change, it’s just how I […]
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July 17th, 2018
When I talk about depression in a dismissive or disrespectful tone, it is because we need to dismiss the ideas that are getting in the way of helping people who suffer from depression.
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