Category Archives: Professional Development

Mastering Leadership and Negotiation: In that space is our power.

Filed under: change, Collaboration tips, Leadership, Management, Negotiation, Professional Development

Here are all of the places we negotiate each day. http://www.obairleadership.com/leadership-negotiation-collaboration-dave-savage/ Transcripts from Dr. Bob Acton’s Mastering Leadership Podcast. Welcome to the Mastering Leadership Show where it’s all about practical ideas to help you get results and build powerful relationships. Every week, we discuss strategies and interview experts to help you strengthen your leadership using factual

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These are some of the people that you can collaborate with. I do. I am.

Filed under: assessments, change, Client coaching, Collaboration tips, conflict, Leadership, Professional Development, Teams

All the people in the world that make collaboration work; my team. Every time I visualize a new project to serve the interests of my clients and our shared future, I explore ways to “real-ize” my vision. In business and not for profits, we have great boards of directors. For solo-prenuers, I have always coached

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What Is Perceived and How May It Affect How I Negotiate My Life (and our future)?

Filed under: change, Client coaching, Collaboration tips, conflict, Leadership, Management, Negotiation, perception, Professional Development, Teams

“The are no facts, only interpretations.” Friedrich Nietzsche In these days of turmoil, challenge, wall builders and opportunity, be conscious of your own interpretations. Shadows: A beautiful warm sunny day in Tulum, Mexico and a sense of adventure had me wanting a journey. I spoke to some travelers experienced in this area and a local

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Summer Solstice and Collaboration

Filed under: Collaboration tips, Leadership, Management, Negotiation, Professional Development, Teams

Thank you for sharing your time and collaborating. In this update, I offer; Offers and Asks Recommendations Bestseller Day Progress and Opportunities International Events Podcasts New works and invitations Summer Solstice and Collaboration 5 Key Questions A valuable volume for the senior leader of any group, business, or organization who wants to build a collaborative culture.”

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Cox as the Board of Directors

Filed under: Leadership, Management, Professional Development, Teams

Charles O’Sullivan, Chairman, Hemisphere Energy Corporation in Vancouver,shares a personal story about collaboration: When I think about collaboration, I realize how it is so important both in business and in sport. During my teenage years and then again at university, I was very much involved in competitive rowing. I rowed in both 4’s and 8’s,

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Is Collaboration Just an Event?

Filed under: Client coaching, Collaboration tips, Leadership, Management, Mediation, Negotiation, Professional Development, Sustainability, Teams

Our systems and organizational cultures are not functioning properly.  Our regulatory and legal system, too often fails both the proponent and the opponent. Why do we continue to waste time, resources and people on so many poorly managed projects? Break Through to Yes promises to deliver a method to make collaboration work for you and

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Embrace Conflict: Circles and Oil Sands Pipelines

Filed under: Client coaching, Collaboration tips, Leadership, Management, Mediation, Negotiation, Professional Development, Sustainability, Teams

Embrace Conflict and Come Together; So much of what we believe is right and common sense does not seem like right or common sense to others. So much of what we believe is right and common sense in our profession and our industry does not seem like right   or common sense to others. The stakes

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Three Rules of Conflict; Guest Blog Duncan Autrey

Filed under: Client coaching, Collaboration tips, Leadership, Management, Mediation, Professional Development, Teams

http://www.duncanautrey.com/ Three Rules of Conflict by Duncan Autrey While working on a series of border conflicts in Ecuador I came up with the “three rules of conflict and conflict resolution.” Yes, I know that conflict is too complex to be reduced to three rules. Nonetheless, these keep coming up, so I thought I’d share (explanations

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Kirkus Review on Break Through To Yes

Filed under: Client coaching, Collaboration tips, Leadership, Management, Mediation, Negotiation, Professional Development, Sustainability, Teams

2016 Kirkus Review on Break Through To Yes http://l5t75)WYli7ymNMtoS “Canadian collaboration expert Savage (a contributor to Ready, Aim, Excel, 2012) offers a work that couldn’t be more timely. While it addresses organizational collaboration, this book could be interpreted more broadly as a treatise on building a cooperative culture within families, groups, businesses, and government. In

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