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Navigating Conflict: Tools for Difficult Conversations
Navigating Tools for Difficult Conversations is perfect for readers who want positive outcomes from personal, professional, and workplace challenges. From reading this powerful guidebook, you’ll Readers will find engrossing real-life stories; skills, strategies, and tactics they can immediately use, and will walk away knowing exactly how to achieve the results they want regardless of the other person’s skills or behavior.
210 pages, Paperback
Published October 3, 2022
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Lynne Curry
6 books80 followersHi, if you would like 700 interesting posts on writing, personal and professional development, career and other topics, you might find my two blogs valuable to you.
One is Lynnecurryauthor.com and the other is workplacecoachblog.com.
I started writing when I learned what words meant. It was a raisin bran cereal box that did it. Even though I read backwards (I was dyslexic), I was stunned to learn that people could communicate with others even without being physically present.
The newspapers became a candy land of writing -- there was so much there and I wanted to be in them. Despite being died-in-the-wool shy, I started carrying my poems to my town’s newspaper office and leaving them in their mail slot.
I was eight when the newspaper surrendered and published my first poem. I was hooked!
Before and after college I dreamed of becoming a full-time writer. I sent my poems and one awful play to every publication I could find. The desire to eat convinced me to get a day job and to go to college, though I used that play to substitute for a formal college application. They gave me a full-tuition scholarship, no doubt for chutzpah.
I still loved newspapers and reading Ann Landers, Amy Van Buren and Mike Royko’s columns convinced me I could write an advice column. I wanted to change the world and was convinced that words were a powerful way to do that.
“The Workplace” started in the Anchorage Times, then was picked up by the Anchorage Daily News, the Tri-city Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, the Morris Daily Herald and a small Vancouver-based syndicate. Although it started out a narrative column, after six weeks in the ADN, the editor called me and said there was a packet of mail waiting for me. Readers liked the column and had written me questions, which created the current “dear Abby of the workplace” approach. The best of these columns are published in Won By One and Solutions, still available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Along the way, I wrote Managing Equally and Legally, McFarland, 1990 and 200 articles for a wide variety of business, trade, women and teen magazines.
Fiction still tugs at me. I’m a third of the way through a novel on internet dating scams, have written two short stories and had a memoir published in Anchorage Remembers.
On July 17, 2014, I wrote a one page query for Beating the Workplace Bully and sent it to 7 agents. One wrote back within the day and two others within the week. All three liked the proposal I wrote and I went with the agent who first wrote me; within six weeks we had offers from six publishers and AMACOM is releasing the book in January of 2016; Brilliance Audio has the audio rights.
What do I need now? Readers:)
One is Lynnecurryauthor.com and the other is workplacecoachblog.com.
I started writing when I learned what words meant. It was a raisin bran cereal box that did it. Even though I read backwards (I was dyslexic), I was stunned to learn that people could communicate with others even without being physically present.
The newspapers became a candy land of writing -- there was so much there and I wanted to be in them. Despite being died-in-the-wool shy, I started carrying my poems to my town’s newspaper office and leaving them in their mail slot.
I was eight when the newspaper surrendered and published my first poem. I was hooked!
Before and after college I dreamed of becoming a full-time writer. I sent my poems and one awful play to every publication I could find. The desire to eat convinced me to get a day job and to go to college, though I used that play to substitute for a formal college application. They gave me a full-tuition scholarship, no doubt for chutzpah.
I still loved newspapers and reading Ann Landers, Amy Van Buren and Mike Royko’s columns convinced me I could write an advice column. I wanted to change the world and was convinced that words were a powerful way to do that.
“The Workplace” started in the Anchorage Times, then was picked up by the Anchorage Daily News, the Tri-city Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, the Morris Daily Herald and a small Vancouver-based syndicate. Although it started out a narrative column, after six weeks in the ADN, the editor called me and said there was a packet of mail waiting for me. Readers liked the column and had written me questions, which created the current “dear Abby of the workplace” approach. The best of these columns are published in Won By One and Solutions, still available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Along the way, I wrote Managing Equally and Legally, McFarland, 1990 and 200 articles for a wide variety of business, trade, women and teen magazines.
Fiction still tugs at me. I’m a third of the way through a novel on internet dating scams, have written two short stories and had a memoir published in Anchorage Remembers.
On July 17, 2014, I wrote a one page query for Beating the Workplace Bully and sent it to 7 agents. One wrote back within the day and two others within the week. All three liked the proposal I wrote and I went with the agent who first wrote me; within six weeks we had offers from six publishers and AMACOM is releasing the book in January of 2016; Brilliance Audio has the audio rights.
What do I need now? Readers:)
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November 8, 2022I wrote Navigating Conflict directly to readers, whether they're accomplished and want to polish their skills or someone who freezes in the face of conflict.
Before writing, I set aside two days and thought about everything I needed, bought when I started out many years ago, fearful with conflict, and now when I handle large-scale mediations and tough assignments on behalf of client, or challenging situations in my own professional/personal life.
I included tools for dealing with toxic individuals, personality conflicts, office policies and problematic personal and workplace situations, along with strategies for effectively handling yourself under fire and when a conflict discussion goes off the rails. If you have the chance to read it, I'd love to know what you think.
Before writing, I set aside two days and thought about everything I needed, bought when I started out many years ago, fearful with conflict, and now when I handle large-scale mediations and tough assignments on behalf of client, or challenging situations in my own professional/personal life.
I included tools for dealing with toxic individuals, personality conflicts, office policies and problematic personal and workplace situations, along with strategies for effectively handling yourself under fire and when a conflict discussion goes off the rails. If you have the chance to read it, I'd love to know what you think.
November 11, 2022
As a former teacher of psychology, small business owner, and employer, I can enthusiastically say that Dr Curry’s lenses on handling conflict offer the clear vision one needs in myriad human interactions, both on the job and off. Seasoned and wise, her prescriptions are relevant and peace-bringing, even in highly contentious environments. I spent time with this excellent book as an advance reader—but I’ll be buying it as a paying customer—& giving it as a gift, both to friends in management as well as those finishing MBAs.
October 7, 2022
Another great resource from Lynne for dealing with all sort of conflict. Whether you are having issues at work or in you personal life, this book has the solution in an easy to follow format. Like all of Lynne's books this one is very well written and covers the subject of conflict resolution throughly.
I highly recommend it.
I highly recommend it.
July 6, 2023
It's apparent from page one that 40 years of experience is talking. I've seen and been involved in so many of these conversations during my career, and I wish I had this book 30 years ago when I was first starting out. That said, I see examples that are relevant right now and as I am still learning at 55, this has been a great resource.
October 30, 2022
Lynne Curry brings her many years of business experience to bear with this essential guide to a really important subject. Conflict in the workplace is an ongoing and constant problem, and Lynne's book is a set of real solutions. Enlighten yourself with this pointed and useful account.
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