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How we handle conflict has an impact on the resilience of our vital relationships, the caliber of our decisions, the success of our careers, and our peace of mind. Mediator, conflict resolution teacher, and author Tammy Lenski, Ed.D., uses storytelling and science to help us transform our experience with conflict and inspire us to disagree better at work and at home. The podcast was formerly called The Space Between.

Disagree better Tammy Lenski

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.8 • 121 Ratings

How we handle conflict has an impact on the resilience of our vital relationships, the caliber of our decisions, the success of our careers, and our peace of mind. Mediator, conflict resolution teacher, and author Tammy Lenski, Ed.D., uses storytelling and science to help us transform our experience with conflict and inspire us to disagree better at work and at home. The podcast was formerly called The Space Between.

    Discovering and managing conflict hooks, part 2

    Discovering and managing conflict hooks, part 2

    Here's an exercise to help you identify your conflict hooks and increase emotional agility during difficult interactions.

    Find episode transcript here.

    Find part 1 here.

    How knowing your conflict hooks helps reduce conflict in your life.

    More about my book here and the free worksheet here.

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    • 9 min
    Discovering and managing your conflict hooks, part 1

    Discovering and managing your conflict hooks, part 1

    One of the best ways to increase emotional agility in conflict is to recognize and manage your conflict hooks.

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    • 8 min
    Unburied empathy

    Unburied empathy

    What we do immediately after we express empathy helps or hinders the connection and alignment we’re trying to build.

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    • 5 min
    Use these 5 phrases to air your grievances and get heard

    Use these 5 phrases to air your grievances and get heard

    How to skip the drama and the rumination and raise a concern so they’ll actually listen.

    Find Tammy's episode transcript and links here and the printable cheat sheet here.

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    • 6 min
    Disagree better by asking great questions

    Disagree better by asking great questions

    It’s tempting to tell people what they should do. It feels efficient, and it makes us feel helpful and wise. When we replace telling with asking, we can do something more powerful and, ultimately, more satisfying: Help people illuminate what’s important and generate effective solutions to problems.

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    • 7 min
    25 ways to disagree better from 25 years of writing about conflict resolution

    25 ways to disagree better from 25 years of writing about conflict resolution

    My newsletter, Disagree Better, turns 25 this month. I’m marking the milestone with 25 ways to disagree better from a wide array of thinkers.

    Find episode transcript and links here. Subscribe to my monthly newsletter here.

    • 10 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
121 Ratings

121 Ratings

hoov68 ,

Highly recommend

Excellent podcast! Short and actionable ideas. Highly recommend

new hampshire transplant ,

So glad I found this!

Really good info and tips packed into short 5-7 minute segments that are very easy to listen to. So glad I found this!

burkinakaren ,

Great wisdom here!

Thanks so much for all your practical ideas on how to resolve conflicts and emotional challenges that come my way❤️

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