Archive for the 'Interpersonal Relationships' Category

Crisis Communication Strategies - Part One

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

This past month I have read a lot about communication, especially the crisis communication. Even the information regards an organization in crisis I think it could be also helpful in interpersonal crisis. Therefore it seems interesting and useful to present the two most known crisis communication strategies adapted to an interpersonal problem. Here I present […]

Steps to Solve a Conflict

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Identify the type of the conflict - this first step is very important because each type of conflict (interpersonal conflicts, intergroup conflicts, interest conflicts, value conflicts, relationship conflicts, emotional conflicts) needs a certain strategy.
Be aware of the aggressive responses and their consequences, also of the alternatives - aggressiveness generates just aggressiveness, only finding out alternative […]

5 Strategies to Tackle Interpersonal Conflicts

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Anywhere there are people, there are also conflicts. The presence of conflicts in our life is inevitable because persons are not the same. There’s not even one person identical with another one. Things as primary needs, different values, perceptions or interests, limited resources and psychological needs makes us to react differently in social relationships.
As long […]

Alone In Our Professional Race

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

It is known that each individual has many needs and from the very first day of living he is “fighting” to accomplish them. On this idea, the American psychologist H. Maslow established five categories of needs (the pyramid of needs): the biological needs, the safety needs, the affiliation needs, the self-esteem and status needs and […]