Conflict in life is inevitable, damaged relationships don't have to be. You'll also learn how to navigate successfully through disputes you believe need to be addressed, and still maintain a positive relationship once the matter has been resolved. In PLAY NICE in Your Sandbox at Work, long-time mediator and relationship coach Ron Price shows you how to have more peace and less strife in your workplace by preventing and minimizing conflict. If you answered no, you might want to see if there is a local chapter of Liars anonymous in your area. Within Play Nice in Your Sandbox at Church, there is a CHAPTER CHALLENGE at the end of each chapter to help readers implement the information they’ve learned throughout.ĭescription: Did you ever get into a dispute, conflict, or disagreement at work that did not end on a positive note? Have you ever lost a friendship with someone over what you considered to be trivial matter? Have you ever wished you could prevent conflict from coming into you life-or better manage those conflict situations which could not be prevented? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you'll be glad you found this book. In sections five through eight, readers gain the knowledge and skill to help them resolve significant differences they are bound to have with others from time-to-time. The first four sections comprise the PLAY chapters, where readers learn how to prevent needless trivial matters from escalating into situations they neither want nor need. Play Nice in Your Sandbox at Church is divided into two major portions covering eight sections. PLAY represents a four-step model to prevent conflict when possible, and NICE gives a four-step model to resolve differences with others. The PLAY and NICE in the title are capitalized because they are acronyms. Ron Price lives and works in Farmington, New Mexico, where he operates Productive Outcomes, Inc., a conflict-management and mediation company.Description: Play Nice in Your Sandbox at Church equips readers with the knowledge and skills needed to help their church members stay focused on their mission, rather than get sidetracked with their interpersonal squabbles. Cases regarding everything from family feuds to corporate conflicts have passed through his capable hands to end at good resolutions. Ron Price, MA has been professionally helping people manage and resolve conflict for decades. It even helps you prevent problems from arising in the first place. Play Nice in Your Sandbox at Work gives you principles and a toolbox full of things you can use in the tough situations that arise in your life. You’d prefer to settle the matter without bringing in law enforcement officers or lawyers. You don’t necessarily want the relationship to be close enough to enjoy Sunday dinners together, but you’d like the vandalism to stop. The next-door neighbor wants you to remove your beautiful and expensive fence that you built (following all of the laws and regulations, of course), which you have every right to keep, and he keeps damaging the fence. You and your spouse get into so many fights and you want to be at peace.If you can just figure out how to bring everyone together…Įven though the book title indicates it’s about work, the principles still apply far from the water cooler. The team just doesn’t function like a team anymore.Your boss throws you under the bus every time you turn around, and you’d like to find a way to stop that.There’s a woman in another department who just can’t stand you, and you can’t figure out why.Play Nice in Your Sandbox at Work helps resolve conflictĬonflict is stress that no one needs. Skill at playing office politics isn’t tied closely to literal survival, thank heavens, but it can be tied closely to keeping one’s job, and certainly is tied to the quality of relationships one has. It’s for everyone who wants to handle conflict better, or even avoid it entirely when that’s possible (it’s not always). Play Nice in Your Sandbox at Work is one of the books I’ve edited.
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