Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

Living a Slowly Life - Slow Down and Do Less, Slowly

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

We live today in the most hectic and feverish world. For the most of us each day seems to be a race; a daily race or “rat race”, an exhausting daily routine that leaves you no time for rest and relaxation. What is alarming is that the speed of this race increase from day to […]

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 […]

Simplicity - 3 Causes of this New Movement

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

There is a greater and greater demand for simplicity and slow-down in our busy and hectic world. Our world has become so complicated and stressful that it turned to be unnatural.
The paradox is that we humans transformed and developed our world motivated by the idea that it would serve us better. But it seems […]