Resolution Mediation

TrainingPros has opened a virtual office in Columbus, Ohio to meet the growing demands of companies that need to augment their human performance teams with point-of-need external resources. Alison Brown has joined TrainingPros as a Relationship Manager for the Columbus virtual office. Alison specializes in customized education, training and development strategies and coaching for individuals [...]

When you think about it, we all have a style of resolving conflicts. In my research and work in conflict resolution over the past 30 years, I see strong differences between the masculine and feminine styles of resolving disputes. The masculine way is linear, aggressive, and often attacking. The feminine style includes conciliation, withdrawing, and [...]

February is never remembered as the shortest month of the year, but rather it is better known as the romance month because of Valentine’s Day. Yet, if you really think about it, I am sure you’ll agree that this is a bit of a fallacy. After all, focusing on celebrating a relationship for just one [...]

Minnesota’s workers’ compensation costs were 30 percent below the median total cost per claim among a 15-state sample and injured Minnesota workers received their first payment more quickly, according to a recent study by the non-profit Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI). While average benefits were in-line with other states, injured workers in Minnesota returned to [...]

Conflict and conflict resolution are a part of any relationship. It is unrealistic to expect to spend decades with someone without one getting on one another’s nerves. I excel at conflict. I should have been an attorney. My big mouth, stubbornness and excess of opinions have provided ample training opportunity to whet my skills. However [...]

BRUNSWICK — Growing up in New Jersey, Jonathan Reitman wanted to play shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers. As he grew older he retired his dream, and set his sights on something bigger: changing the world, modestly speaking that is. Influenced by his parents, who were active in the civil rights movements during the 1950s and [...]

Picture today’s workplace as a rope, with its threads unraveling. Unless managers are alert…and capable of intervening, the rope will most certainly snap. The nation’s persistent economic problems are taking their toll on families and workers. They are fueling and escalating workplace conflicts that are costly in both personal terms and business productivity. While workplace [...]

As we trudge bleary-eyed into another working week, Screen Play regular contributor Dateman this morning comes to our rescue with suggestions on how to make work more fun. Since his last Your Turn entry, Dateman says he is “now a year older, fatter, no wiser, less hairy, and lives in constant fear of turning on [...]

The globalization of business is occurring at an unprecedented rate. Focusing a corporation only on home soil dramatically limits the size of market a firm can serve. With this realization comes a push for business leaders to seek growth opportunities. This leads motivated companies across the border, expanding into the U.S. or Canada. Unlike many [...]

It is not a good option to create a sectoral corporation for every sector, says Planning Commission member B.K. Chaturvedi. The B.K. Chaturvedi panel has submitted the second part of its report on highways to Union road transport and highways minister Kamal Nath. In an interview, Chaturvedi, a member of India’s apex planning body, the [...]