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Handling Conflict

As managers, it’s part of our job to intercede on behalf or our staff when they’re faced with confrontational people. How we handle conflict is important, and there are a couple rules I’ve found that are helpful. First, it is important to listen. Everyone feels that the world should revolve around their problem, and they […]

Getting to the Bottom of a Problem

Everyone is occasionally faced with a perplexing problem.  This was really brought home for me recently when I was trying to fix my daughter’s wheelchair.  We have had problems off and on with one of the brakes on her chair for years.  We’ve had specialists look at it and they’d mess about with it and […]

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