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Mediating Dangerously
Sometimes it's necessary to push beyond the usual limits of themediation process to achieve deeper and more lasting change.Mediating Dangerously shows how to reach beyond technical andtraditional intervention to the outer edges and dark places ofdispute resolution, where risk taking is essential and fundamentalchange is the desired result. It means opening wounds and lookingbeneath the surface, challenging comfortable assumptions, andexploring dangerous issues such as dishonesty, denial, apathy,domestic violence, grief, war, and slavery in order to reach adeeper level of transformational change. Mediating Dangerously shows conflict resolution professionals howto advance beyond the traditional steps, procedures, and techniquesof mediation to unveil its invisible heart and soul and to revealthe subtle and sensitive engine that drives the process of personaland organizational transformation. This book is a major newcontribution to the literature of conflict resolution that willinspire and educate professionals in the field for years to come.
Resolving Conflicts at Work
Here is a completely updated edition of the best-selling Resolving Conflicts at Work. This definitive and comprehensive work provides a handy guide for resolving conflicts, miscommunications, and misunderstandings at work and outlines the authors’ eight strategies that show how the inevitable disputes and divisions in the workplace actually provide an opportunity for greater creativity, productivity, enhanced morale, and personal growth. This new edition includes current case studies that put the focus on leadership, management, and how organizations can design systems to change a culture of avoidance into a culture of creative conflict. The result is a more practical book for today’s companies and the people who work in them.
The Dance of Opposites
"The Dance of Opposites: Explorations in Mediation, Dialogue and Conflict Resolution Systems Design explores a new vision for conflict resolution, a "conflict revolution" that analyzes the use of language in conflict, the narrative structure of conflict stories, and how the brain responds to conflict. It surveys religion, spirituality and meditation, and searches for ways of opening heartfelt communications between opponents. The Dance of Opposites also looks at social, political, and environmental conflicts, and offers suggestions on how to organize and conduct dialogues over difficult, dangerous, and controversial issues. It identifies new ways of designing conflict resolution systems for family and couples disputes, and for chronic organizational conflicts, and encourages us to use conflict to learn and grow, become better human beings, and transform it into opportunities for improvement."--Publisher.
The Art of Waking People Up
In The Art of Waking People Up authors Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith draw on more than thirty years of practical experience with hundreds of organizations-- from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies, schools, and nonprofits-- to reveal new ways of giving and receiving feedback that maximize personal and organizational change and foster lifelong learning. They show how organizations can develop the systems, processes, techniques, and relationships that affirm, rather than undermine, the intelligence and humanity of their employees. This important resource is filled with the necessary tools, interventions, and strategies managers can use to encourage their employees to speak, hear, absorb, and use the information they need to improve the way they work.
Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflict
"Resolving Personal and Organizational Conflicts and Disputes offers specific methods for assisting disputing parties to communicate their problems without sinking into the twin traps of demonization and victimization. In addition, the authors show how to encourage people and organizations in conflict to identify new ways of sustaining supportive relationships and transforming anger into awareness, dialogue, and reconciliation."--BOOK JACKET.
The Crossroads of Conflict
The Crossroads of Conflict: A Journey into the Heart of Dispute Resolution (Second Edition) describes all conflicts as "crossroads" and catalysts for learning, evolution, growth, and wisdom. It shows how to locate the root sources of conflict and remove the barriers to forgiveness and reconciliation, collaboration, and community. Ken Cloke's analysis of the inner sources of chronic conflict and ideas for a unified theory for resolving conflict is groundbreaking and destined to become a cornerstone of the future of dispute resolution.
Politics, Dialogue and the Evolution of Democracy
In the U. S. and around the world, we are mired in political conflicts that lead to discrimination, divisive language, and combative processes that diminish our ability to solve pressing global problems. This book offers a guide for facilitating and engaging in collaborative, interest-based dialogues about today's most important topics.
Thank God It's Monday!
This text attempts to aid individuals, managers and organizations create positive work environments where communication between all levels is respected, creativity is encouraged and people are acknowledged and supported. It provides real world examples and exercises. Fourteen core values are identified that will make work stimulating and satisfying, including: inclusion of everyone; celebration of diversity; open and honest communication; risk-taking; and opportunities for personal growth.
THE END OF MANAGEMENT AND THE RISE OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOCRACY
Market_Desc: · Leaders· Executives· Managers Special Features: · The book is endorsed by Peter Senge, Jim Champy, Rosabeth Moss Kanter this is another noteworthy volume in the prestigious Warren Bennis Signature Series. · It puts forth a vision for creating new forms of economic organization that are simultaneously values-based and productively efficient.· This text weaves together major management themes--collaborative process, values, 360-degree feedback--into a whole that is truly new and refreshing. About The Book: This book calls for a radical set of organizational development initiatives that will combat the destructive forces of globalization and promote sustainable forms of organizational life--and move organizations to organizational democracy. This call to action places the responsibility for change squarely on the shoulders of both the managers and the employees themselves. Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith have worked for twenty-five years to help organizations address problems that arise from dysfunctional management systems.
Overcoming Conflict
Discover the Right Way to Handle Conflict Conflict is an unavoidable part of life, but you can control how you respond to it. You can let difficult situations fuel your anger and stir your desire to retaliate—or you can choose to grow in empathy, honesty, and acceptance. It's up to you. Overcoming Conflict will give you the confidence you need to solve arguments, settle disputes, and restore harmony. You'll learn... ten common myths about conflict how to properly discuss differences and issues the importance of observing body language what to do when someone confronts you the power and meaning of forgiveness By applying the principles in this book, you will develop new patterns of behavior that will significantly improve your personal and professional relationships and give you greater peace of mind when conflicts arise.
