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Tag Archive for 'relationship-coaching'

When Difficult Conversations Are Like Shoe Sales

Two shoe salespeople were assigned new territory in a remote country. In a few days, their employer received telegrams from each.
The first one read: “Get me out of here—no one here wears shoes.”
The other read: “Send more inventory—no one here owns shoes!”
This is an old tale often re-told in the context of marketing. It’s […]

Posted on Dec 21st 06 by Tammy Lenski.

Tammy helps people talk out their differences and build stronger work and home relationships in the process. She does this as a coach, mediator and trainer and works with people worldwide. http://www.lenski.com

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For Strong Client Relationships, Beware the Distancing Spiral

“Beware the distancing spiral.” I just came across this note in one of my notebooks from a decade ago and never has a truer thing been said. The note was scribbled in the margin, clearly quoting one of my conflict management professors.
Finding the note made me smile because I just said the same thing […]

Posted on Nov 20th 06 by Tammy Lenski.

Tammy helps people talk out their differences and build stronger work and home relationships in the process. She does this as a coach, mediator and trainer and works with people worldwide. http://www.lenski.com

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Difficult Conversations: It’s Easy to Misunderstand, So Curb Your Outrage a Moment

A while back, I wrote a post called The 10 Best Ways to Win an Argument. It’s a completely tongue-in-cheek piece, intended to draw a laugh by highlighting common actions people take in difficult conversations and which are, in fact, poor choices. Some yield consistently disastrous results (though some of us keep doing […]

Posted on Nov 17th 06 by Tammy Lenski.

Tammy helps people talk out their differences and build stronger work and home relationships in the process. She does this as a coach, mediator and trainer and works with people worldwide. http://www.lenski.com

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Do it anyway

Came across this Spirit of Wellness wisdom today.
At least a tiny portion of it is attributed on internet quote-collection sites to someone named Grace Hansen.
(Fifteen minutes of Googling hasn’t told me anything about who Grace Hansen is (was?) — other than especially clever and funny. (Unless she was the silent-film-era actress who died in 1985?) If you know, […]

Posted on Sep 26th 06 by ken winston caine.

Million-selling holistic-self-help author ken winston caine explores and shares "what works" from the frontiers of holistics, personal development, rapid therapy, and planetary healing. He has doctorates in holistic health and New Thought. http://www.mindbodyspiritjournal.com

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