The 5 Kinds of Conflict Resolution
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The 5 Kinds of Conflict Resolution

Conflict. Nobody wants to deal with it. Everybody has to sometimes. So how do you deal with it well? We’re on a mission to become more effective communicators, so how do effective communicators approach an interpersonal conflict? In today’s post, we’ll look at the five different styles of conflict resolution and discuss why one of those five is almost always the right choice.

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Giving & Receiving Feedback Effectively
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Giving & Receiving Feedback Effectively

You have to give constructive criticism to a member of your team. How are you going to do it? Giving feedback is hard. And that’s largely because receiving feedback is hard. How can you be firm enough to get results when offering constructive criticism but kind enough to not end up hurting someone’s feelings? How can you motivate the people around you to do better when you first have to tell them that they’re not doing as well as you want them to be?

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Becoming a Better Listener
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Becoming a Better Listener

How do you know when someone is listening to you? Most of the time it’s pretty easy to tell. Someone who’s listening to you—really listening to you—makes eye contact, they give feedback by nodding or mirroring your facial expressions. Someone who’s listening to you interacts, sometimes asking additional questions or affirming their agreement with you.

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Overcoming Challenges in Communication
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Overcoming Challenges in Communication

When it comes to communication, there are many challenges that we face every day. Effective communication does not happen accidentally; we have to work at it with intentionality and perseverance! Today, we’ll look at three of the most common obstacles that disrupt our communication with others, and we’ll see what steps we can take to avoid them.

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DIY: Organizing Your Closet
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DIY: Organizing Your Closet

We’ve all heard the phrase ‘skeletons in the closet.’ It’s meant to be a euphemism for dark secrets but for some of us, the saying might be a bit more…literal. Of course, I don't think any of us have literal skeletons in our closets but the cupboard might very well be too cluttered for us to be able to tell.

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DIY: Tuning Up & Refinishing Furniture
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DIY: Tuning Up & Refinishing Furniture

This one’s for all the thrifting and ‘use it till the legs fall off’ people out there! You want furniture that will get the job done without the hefty price tags of brand-new designer items, so you turn to thrift stores and garage sales. We understand, and we’re right there with you! But there are easy and cheap ways to give your well-loved furniture a tune-up, and we’re going to share them with you in this post!

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DIY: Updating Your Laundry Room
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DIY: Updating Your Laundry Room

In the day-to-day, it is easy to allocate the more mundane tasks and unpleasant chores into a certain ‘just get it done’ category in our minds. Taking out the trash, washing the dishes, making the bed: We do these things every day without a second thought, never considering how they might be transformed into enjoyable and edifying activities.

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Decorating Your Home for Christmas
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Decorating Your Home for Christmas

We all know that the most wonderful time of the year can also be one of the most stressful times of the year for a lot of different reasons. Maybe hosting family is hectic or your December calendar fills up in what feels like minutes. The last thing you need is to also be stressed about decorating your home for the holidays.

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Decorating Your Home for Thanksgiving
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Decorating Your Home for Thanksgiving

Every November, there is a war between people who are ready to start celebrating Christmas and those who fiercely defend the day that stands between Halloween and the official start of the Christmas season in the United States. That day, of course, is Thanksgiving – on the fourth Thursday of November. Whether you put up your tree the moment Halloween is over or can’t hear a note of Michael Buble until Black Friday begins, we can all agree that Thanksgiving is worth preserving in the midst of the yearly decorating debate.

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Decorating Your Home for Fall (& a Fear-Free Halloween)
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Decorating Your Home for Fall (& a Fear-Free Halloween)

When it comes to decorating your home for different holidays, there are different challenges and different appeals. In the spring and especially in the summer months, decorating can only go so far because many of those holidays like Memorial Day and the 4th of July are primarily celebrated outdoors. The holidays that fall later in the year, however, offer a different charm for decorating.

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