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February 21, 2018

Lack of Respect: A Hidden Culprit Behind Gun Control Inaction

by Gregg Ward in Change, Engagement, Managing Conflict

America experiences a mass shooting — defined as 4+ victims killed, including the shooter — on an average of one per day. In the first few weeks of 2018, there have already been nine school shootings that resulted in serious injury or death. According to many studies, this is unique to our country; no other […]

business people's hands laid flat on a table to form a circle

January 19, 2018

Advocating for Respect: Overcoming Skeptics Who Claim We’re Oversensitive and Too Politically Correct

by Gregg Ward in Leadership Presence, Respectful Leadership

Hearing about Donald Trump’s recent meeting in which he made disrespectful comments about immigrants and other countries reminded me of an incident I witnessed over 20 years ago, while facilitating a corporate leadership strategy session. I watched – paralyzed – as the CEO of a global company literally screamed obscenities and personal abuse at his […]

February 11, 2015

Upset? Angry? Try Respect.

by Gregg Ward in Managing Conflict

Right before Christmas, we discovered we had been lied to by a sales rep at our cell phone store and, furious, we went back in January to return some unwanted merchandise we’d been told we “had to buy.” But the “lead” customer service rep who was processing our return – despite knowing we’d been lied […]

runner helping another runner during race

January 22, 2015

Respect For Opponents?

by Gregg Ward in Managing Conflict

Respect can surprise us in interesting ways. How many of us would have the courage to deliberately lose an important race to an opponent who’d made a mistake? In December of 2012, in an extraordinary show of respectful sportsmanship, Ivan Fernandez Anay – a long-distance runner from the Basque region of Spain who was running […]

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December 15, 2014

You Don’t Have To Like Someone to Work With Them

by Gregg Ward in Collaborative Innovation

There’s an old saying in business and it goes like this…”You don’t have to like someone to work with them.” I agree, there are many people that we work with who we don’t necessarily like, and we sure wouldn’t want to hang out with them on a personal basis. But, when we do work with these […]

June 16, 2014

When Does Public Disrespect Deserve A Response?

by Gregg Ward in Managing Conflict

I’m disturbed by some publicly disrespectful behavior we observed in a department store recently. While checking out, we noticed a little girl – perhaps 2 years old – running around behind the checkout lines while her mother, her aunt and grandmother, paid the cashier. The child ran right behind a store Associate – a girl […]

Angry business woman throwing papers in coworkers face

December 6, 2013

Disrespect or Bullying?

by Gregg Ward in Managing Conflict

What’s the difference between disrespect and bullying? According to a recent post by the author and workplace bullying expert Valerie Cade, the difference appears to be about self-awareness and intention. Most of us who aren’t bullies have been unintentionally disrespectful toward a co-worker at one time or another (I know I have and I’m not […]

October 20, 2013

The Introverted Manager’s Dilemma

by Gregg Ward in Engagement, Leadership Presence

Last year I was coaching a mid-level manager named “Ted” who admitted he was having trouble “making small talk” with his team. Some of them even said he was “unapproachable” in an anonymous employee survey. So, when I asked him about it Ted came clean, “I come in Monday mornings and head directly for my […]

August 17, 2013

Practicing “Regular Respect” Is Easy Until It Isn’t

by Gregg Ward in Respectful Leadership

If you’re like most people, you’ll hold a door open for a stranger when entering or leaving a public space like an office building, coffee shop or retailer. And, if you’re like most people, you’ll say “excuse me” when you bump into someone in public. And, you’ll say “bless you” when someone sneezes. These are […]

June 7, 2013

Keeping Politics at Bay in the Workplace

by Gregg Ward in Collaborative Innovation, Managing Conflict

It’s fairly obvious the American political scene is red-hot right now. Many of the candidates are making statements about social issues that are designed as “red-meat” for their base voters, but which may be off-putting or even upsetting to those who don’t agree. But from a teamwork and collaboration point of view, keeping politics out […]

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Tag Archives: Respect

Lack of Respect: A Hidden Culprit Behind Gun Control Inaction

Advocating for Respect: Overcoming Skeptics Who Claim We’re Oversensitive and Too Politically Correct

Upset? Angry? Try Respect.

Respect For Opponents?

You Don’t Have To Like Someone to Work With Them

When Does Public Disrespect Deserve A Response?

Disrespect or Bullying?

The Introverted Manager’s Dilemma

Practicing “Regular Respect” Is Easy Until It Isn’t

Keeping Politics at Bay in the Workplace

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