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Category Archives: Communication
2011 in Review
Summary of Activities for 2011 2011 turned out to be a busy year! During this year we worked with a number of key clients and performed challenging and rewarding work. Among others, clients this year included: The United States Department … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Assessment, Coaching, Communication, Employee Training, Facilitation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MacAllister, Master Mediator Institute, Mediation, Mentoring, Monique McKay, Ombudsman, Organizational Development, Public Meeting Facilitation, Strategic Planning, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged Important Public Hearings and Meetings, Leadership, Ombudsman Programs, Recent Activities
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Continuing our discussion on tips for effective communication…
Twelve Tips for Effective Communication – Tip Five: Communication is Not Just Speaking So far in our on-going discussion in which we will ultimately offer “Twelve Tips” for effective communication, we have discussed four ways to help you improve your … Continue reading
Continuing our series on tips for effective communication …
Twelve Tips for Communication Tip Four: Listen Comprehensively – the Many Levels of Listening Listening involves more than just hearing. In this post, our focus is on understanding comprehensive listening: listening in the broadest and most powerful sense. This concept … Continue reading
Tools for Effective Communication: Third Tool
Tools for Effective Communication: Third tool: Understanding Styles. So far, we have discussed two tools designed to help you approach an important communication: setting a goal for the outcome and planning the communication before jumping into it. Perhaps most of … Continue reading
Recent Activities
An Update on Recent Activities If you have checked in to look for blog updates since mid-summer, you will have undoubtedly noticed that there was silence. For those waiting for the next posting on relating to the “Twelve Tips for … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Conflict Resolution, Discussions, Employee Training, Environmental Impact Statement, Facilitation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MacAllister, Ombudsman, Ombudsman Essential Characteristics, Public Meeting Facilitation, Stress, Training
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“How Leading Lawyers Think” A book review by Monique McKay, LL.M. and Robert Creo, J.D.
Preface: The following is a book review co-authored by professional colleagues, Monique McKay and Robert Creo. Ms. McKay and Mr. Creo are the co-founders of the Master Mediator Institute, which is a non-profit organization that allows mediators, executives, negotiators and … Continue reading
Twelve Tools for Effective Communication; Part One — Set a goal for your communication
Twelve Tools for Effective Communication Introduction In the coming weeks, we will be posting a series of articles expanding on our concept of twelve communication tools. These tools are designed to help a person plan for and effectively execute an … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Conflict Resolution, Focus, MacAllister, Upcoming topics
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Change Leadership – Our Continuing Review of Leadership Traits
More models leading to the FIVE “Cs” of Leadership; An overview of the attributes of leadership In my last posting, I described several more approaches to leadership and leadership paradigms, as described by writers and scholars such as Mark Sanborn … Continue reading
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Leadership in Context, continued
Leadership in Context – Continued More models leading to the FIVE “Cs” of Leadership; An overview of the attributes of leadership In my last posting, I described some approaches to leadership and leadership paradigms. This posting describes some other, more … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Connector, Execution, Five C's of Leadership, Focus, Power with people, Self-Mastery
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