[Opinion] Will You Read This?

There are a lot of tips, tricks, “how-to’s” and hack based articles, blog posts, and columns, everywhere. And there always have been. Partially, this is because the people reading the articles want the easy out. This is evidenced in corporate training where attendees will say “I don’t want the theory, Read more…

[Strategy] Burnout Over The Pacific

When you talk with divorce and family lawyers about divorces, separations, or even “conscious uncouplings” a statement they always make in the course of the conversation focuses around their amazement that couple choose to go through a litigation based process. In particular, their statement tends to focus on the fact Read more…

Trust Me

“Trust me. I got this.” If there is any other phrase that precedes a sense of oncoming dread and mistrust, it’s this one. If there is a statement that preceded eventual conflict more than any other, we aren’t aware of it. Trust, when freely given, often operates as a noun, Read more…

Conflict in Your Organization

Have you ever heard the one about the consultant who mediated their own divorce? No? Neither have we. We’ve just heard the story many times before and wondered how much of that could have been avoided with some conversations. As a professional consultant though, in the area of conflict, or Read more…

Garage Sale Mediation

Garage sales are the closest that many people will get to the retail experience in their own home. A number of items in the household are determined to be of value—sentimental, monetary, emotional or utilitarian—and then they are selected and sold to others. The display of items is critical—the better Read more…

Quality is Job One

Trust is evident when a company, organization, association or individual promotes themselves, their ideas, their products or their services online, either via social media or via search. Trust works in a social sense (again, both on and off line) because without a relationship, even if it’s a tangential one, connection Read more…