Conflict

Seven top tips for conflict management and negotiation

Conflict – whether internal amongst colleagues or external with clients and suppliers – is an inevitable part of life and I have previously written about conflict management (see, for example http://kimtasso.com/nine-ideas-for-better-conflict-management/) and negotiation (http://kimtasso.com/10-practical-tips-fee-price-negotiations/). At a recent series of conflict management and negotiation skills workshops with leading property partnerships and Read More

2016-05-03T09:20:06+01:00May 3, 2016|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Psychology and business communication: An introduction to Transactional Analysis (TA)

Psychology offers a lot of tools to improve business communication. Psychology and business communication are frequent themes in my training courses for professionals. As well as topics such as personality, cognitive styles, emotional intelligence and NLP, I provide an introduction to Transactional Analysis in a number of my communication and Read More

2024-07-02T18:50:31+01:00January 9, 2015|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

10 practical tips for fee and price negotiations

As part of the conflict management training courses and coaching I provide, I have just updated the 40 page resource “Guide to effective communication, conflict management and negotiation for smoother relationships and better outcomes” that I provide to delegates and coaching clients. Whilst much of the training focuses on influence, Read More

2015-11-13T10:44:31+00:00June 2, 2014|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Property, Relationship Management, Selling|

We’re all change managers in professional services

At a recent in-house training workshop on “Communication, conflict and negotiation” I explained about different personality, cognitive and relationship styles – and the mind set of fee-earning professionals. We considered how to adapt our approach so that we could create rapport and trust and forge strong relationships with fee-earners. This, Read More

2014-05-19T09:10:09+01:00May 19, 2014|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Management Skills, Marketing, Property, Relationship Management|

Book review “Conversational riffs – creating meaning out of conflict” by Neil Denny (Conflict management)

Book review “Conversational riffs - creating meaning out of conflict” by Neil Denny (Conflict management). Psychologists say that successful relationships have the following elements: A safe place from which to explore Repair after rupture Communication Neil’s book on conflict management offers some great insights and help primarily in the second Read More

2022-05-31T09:15:55+01:00April 1, 2012|Accountants, Kim's Blog, Lawyers, Relationship Management|
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