Category Archives: Workplace and Employment Conflict

5th Annual Conflict Resolution Colloquium, Montgomery College, MD, 11/1/19

This year’s event, We’re Both Right: Successful Conversations to Bridge the Divide, will provide participants with tools and techniques to have difficult yet powerful conversations on issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, physical and mental ability – conversations that often divide us. Unlike other events that feature lectures, this colloquium will move quicklyContinue reading “5th Annual Conflict Resolution Colloquium, Montgomery College, MD, 11/1/19”

Using Appreciative Inquiry as a Means to Setting Organizational Goals: Working with the Virginia Mediation Network

As a consultant, I am often requested by organizations to help with strategic planning and looking for ways to advance a group’s objectives. Though various strategies can be used, I tend to use Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as the process of choice. Based on the work of David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva, AI is focused onContinue reading “Using Appreciative Inquiry as a Means to Setting Organizational Goals: Working with the Virginia Mediation Network”