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Sun Prairie, WI 53590

Reducing Conflict and Negativity in the Workplace

 Practical knowledge for practical solutions

How can we resolve or even reduce conflict and negativity if we don't really know what they are?  Attend this seminar to experience an exercise that helps you convert vague notions into sound, useful understandings that will become the basis of practical solutions.

How to overcome your fear of confrontation

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You can overcome the fears of confrontation, which inhibit your ability to re-direct everyone involved toward reduced tensions, healing old wounds, and more positive working relationships.

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However, you won't overcome your fears just by saying so.  Learn and implement the methods in this fast-paced seminar to overcome those fears once and for all.

Exercises to identify real, primary causes of conflict, negativity

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To make our solution-actions effective, they must target the primary causes of conflict and negativity.  Otherwise, we may treat the 'symptoms' and thereby waste time, and possibly make matters worse.  

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Because many primary causes are hidden from plain view, this seminar conducts a test-case exercise to demonstrate how you can uncover the major causes.

Methods to convert confrontations into productive solutions

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At the moment of confrontation, you have a short time to re-direct the situation toward productive solutions and away from a clash.

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In order to exert that influence at the critical time, you must know how to take control smoothly and lead people away from futile quarrels and toward positive results.

Separate reality from misleading perceptions (theirs and yours)

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The further we get from reality, the farther apart we get from each other, which worsens conflict and negativity.

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This seminar will emphasize a variety of methods you can employ to bring back the other person (and yourself) closer to reality, on which you can then build actions and processes to improve work relations.

How you can be a positive catalyst at any level

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You don't have to be the boss to have a powerful influence on reducing confrontations and negativity.  In fact, it's in everyone's interest and within everyone's potential ability to do so.

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Whether you're a line-level staff person, a supervisor, or an administrator, you can learn these insights and techniques to be a positive catalyst in reducing conflict and improving cooperation.

What you should do before a clash

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We lose huge amounts of time and resources in conflicts and negativity, not to mention the toll the stress takes on our health.  So it's clearly worth it to spend some time and actions preparing yourself for expected clashes.

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This seminar's simple methods of preparation can help you and your co-workers profit in many ways.
 

Options for action during confrontations

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Even with the best skills and preparation to avoid confrontation and negativity, some will nevertheless occur.  So, instead of being surprised or disappointed in yourself when they happen, accept that reality and then handle them with the techniques featured in this seminar.

Keeping cool while under fire

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Keeping your cool when they are losing theirs --  It's not as hard as you think.  Find out what works best for you to keep calm and focused, even when others are trying to provoke you.

How to stop confrontation tactics in their tracks

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Learn these methods to stop confrontation tactics.  Discover how to step around their taunts while you keep working toward long-term cooperation and improvement.

Recovery methods, taking care of yourself after a clash

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No matter what you do to resolve most confrontations and negativity, sometimes one or two will get through to your emotions and upset you.

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Attend this seminar to discover what works best for you to restore peace and calm, so that you can continue making improvements without unnecessary damage from lingering stress.

Use their natural motivations to lead them to mutual goals

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Learn how to use their natural desires and legitimate fears as inherent motivators for peace and cooperation.

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In planning resolutions, recognize your limits and theirs.

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This seminar emphasizes the need to recognize everyone's limitations when devising solution actions.

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This will help you select the most productive actions to take with limited resources.

Skill-building via voluntary role-play

bulletRole-play on a voluntary basis will be offered to build your skills and make the lessons longer-lasting. 
 
Special discounts are available for not-for-profit community organizations serving low-income households. Free training:  If your organization would like training but does not have the budget to pay for it, contact us regarding the 'shared-training cost-saver' arrangement.  Under this arrangement, your organization could receive a certain number of free seats in a seminar held at your building and using your basic equipment (e.g., LED projector and flip chart).  Contact us to get a list of places where this has worked very well for all parties.

Dallas-Fort Worth and Las Vegas areas:  Special discounts are available for seminars held in these areas.

We tailor each event or seminar to meet your needs.  You may select parts from any of our seminars and ask us to build a new seminar or event to match your preferences. Length: Seminars are typically full day but can be trimmed to a half-day.  They may also be condensed to key points for conference-style general session presentation of 45 minutes or break-out conference workshop of 90 to 120 minutes.

Privacy guaranteed: We absolutely do not share client information with anyone or anything in the Universe -- nobody, nothing, never.

Dedicated to Winifred Guyant.  If everyone lived as she did, there would be a world filled with love and caring, and there would be no poverty and no wars.