MSU Extension Conflict Resolution

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• Employee review techniques yield increased productivity: Part 1

  Published on December 18, 2013
  As workplace productivity increases, the need for ever greater management skills to both maintain and further enhance human capital’s contribution to organizational success.

• Ice breaker reveals team talents

  Published on December 13, 2013
  Use this tool when forming a new team, group, cohort or committee.

• Make decisions easier with this prioritizing tool

  Published on December 10, 2013
  Paired Comparisons is an easy systematic way to compare multiple choices that can lead to surprising results!

• “Strategic Planning” or “Strategic Futuring": what is the difference and which is should we use?

  Published on December 9, 2013
  Strategic Futuring can help communities chart a course to achieve their vision through successful collaboration and consensus building.

• Use active listening skills to effectively deal with conflict

  Published on December 2, 2013
  Active listening is a way to hear and respond to another person that will increase shared understanding.

• Discussion needed at all levels of government about how to govern: Part 1

  Published on October 22, 2013
  Occasionally someone will ask, “Can’t we all just get along?” It’s not about getting along, it’s about finding a way to govern that fosters the stability needed for people, families and businesses of all types to make good decisions.

• Discussion needed at all levels of government about how to govern: Part 2

  Published on October 22, 2013
  Occasionally someone will ask, “Can’t we all just get along?” It’s not about getting along, it’s about finding a way to govern that fosters the stability needed for people, families and businesses of all types to make good decisions.

• Steps to building a successful team: Part 4

  Published on October 17, 2013
  The fourth step: embracing accountability.

• Steps to building a successful team: Part 3

  Published on October 15, 2013
  The third step: overcoming dysfunction.

• If you are going to have a meeting, have a reason!

  Published on October 8, 2013
  When participants know the overall purpose of a meeting they have been invited to attend, when they know where they fit into an overall plan, then they are more likely to be helpful and engaged.