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Laurie Weiss's Articles in Communication

  • Overcome Conversation Power Plays: 5 Steps to Success
    When you know you are supposed to "just shut up and listen," and you really want to get your point across, you have options. Follow these steps to reclaim your own power.
  • Does Anyone Dare to Tell the Truth?
    Practicing deception has become normal for many people. You need to work to create a situation where telling the truth becomes normal again.
  • Disarming Defensive Behavior
    Some people need to be right whether they are or not.They're so defensive, it's a real challenge to get them to address any problem. Here are a successful team leader's stratagies for sidesteping their defensiveness.
  • Conflict: The Critical Questions (Part 3 of 4)
    When you've taken on the task of helping others resolve conflict, your most important job is to know what questions must be answered to help clarify the situation. The more of these 26 questions you can answer, the more successful you will be.
  • Conflict: Steps to Resolution (Part 2 of 4)
    Although strategies for intervening in conflict can be varied and creative, successful intervention strategies do have certain themes in common. Above all, everyone involved must be treated with respect.
  • Conflict: Hazards of Helping (Part 4 of 4)
    Successful conflict intervention professionals do not "fix" things for their clients. Instead, they lead clients through the process of resolving their own issues in a supportive and effective manner.
  • Communicating Emotionally Difficult Information
    Nine steps you can use when it's time to say something sensitive or potentially upsetting to someone you work with.
  • Changing Conflict To Dialogue
    It is easier to create an argument than it is to create a dialogue. Dialogue is a different kind of conversation. It's a way of exploring and understanding information and ideas. When practiced, it draws on and uses the wisdom of everyone involved.

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