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Beyond Emotional Intelligence – Workplace conflict, avoidance coping, and the mental health crisis

Adriana Vela, Certified EQ and Conflict Coach, Minute Mediation Contrary to popular belief, emotional intelligence has nothing to do with being nice. Likewise, engaging in conflict does not equal personal failure. A person can be nice and still be clueless about the emotional impact they have on others and conflict can occur anytime, anywhere, and sometimes can’t be prevented. So why is it that workplaces go to lengths to avoid conflict and why is there such a stigma about discussions of mental health? This has been an area of research interest for the last 15 years as well as the study...

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How mediation can help business partners sleep at night

Running a business is not easy. In fact, it’s extremely difficult and at times, incredibly stressful. If you’re a solo founder, then you have to make tough business decisions all by yourself, find the finances to support your business, be the face of the company and make HR decisions all alone too. Those who run their own business alone often dream about finding the ideal business partner who wants to take on all this stress with them, as it just seems so much better to have the support of someone else. However, having business partners comes with its own issues. If...

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