Conflict management

Book Review – Never split the difference: Negotiating as if your life depended on it by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz

Regular readers will be aware that one of my favourite books on negotiating is “Negotiation for leaders” by Simon Horton which I reviewed in 2016 . But this book: “Never split the difference: Negotiating as if your life depended on it” by Chris Voss – a former FBI hostage negotiator Read More

2021-05-05T15:40:00+01:00May 5, 2021|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management, Selling|

Active Listening (Video)

This 10 minute video looks at why active listening is so important – yet difficult. It provides seven tips to help you improve your active listening skills. Video script Hi I’m Kim Tasso. Today – as you can see from my ears – I’ll be talking about active listening. Read More

2025-11-05T09:37:58+00:00November 27, 2020|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Soft skills – Dealing with difficult conversations

We all have to spend time dealing with difficult conversations. Conflict is a natural part of all relationships at home and at work. I’ve written before about the sources of difference and provided ideas on how to deal with “difficult” people and situations. And there are short videos on two Read More

2020-09-30T09:31:51+01:00September 30, 2020|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Business relationships – How the parent, adult, child (PAC) model helps with difficult interactions (Video)

This short (7 minutes) video introduces Transactional Analysis (TA). Business relationships – How the parent, adult, child (PAC) model helps with difficult interactions. (Video script) Hi, I’m Kim Tasso I’d like to share with you today a psychology concept to help you deal with difficult interactions – both in business Read More

2025-05-25T12:24:13+01:00September 4, 2020|Kim's Blog, Relationship Management|

Book launch: Essential soft skills for lawyers – some research findings

Between August 2019 and March 2020 I analysed a huge amount of information and research relating to the importance of soft skills within the UK legal profession. I also interviewed over 20 people from large and small law firms – lawyers and learning & development professionals – as well as Read More

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