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Beyond Fight, Flight and Freeze there are also Fawn and Fester as responses to Conflict
Our brains react strongly to potential conflict, triggering fight, flight, or freeze responses. This article highlights two less common reactions: fawning (people-pleasing) and festering (internalizing/sharing negativity). To navigate conflict better, the author suggests increasing awareness of your typical response and developing engagement skills through listening and valuing both yourself and the other person.

Michael Walker
Apr 152 min read
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Personal brand is a value transfer
There is a lot of talk about personal brand. The concept has negative connotations, but we need to look at it differently.

Michael Walker
Apr 11 min read
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How to improve the quality of your existence
The way we show up in the world, and the way we connect with others, is through language, emotions and body.

Michael Walker
Mar 202 min read
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Use BIFF to communicate with high-conflict people
BIFF is a great acronym to remember when responding to a high-conflict person in an interaction that is hostile.

Michael Walker
Mar 102 min read
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Are you a good communicator?
How can we evaluate whether we are good communicators? One way is by measuring our communication against Charles Kostelnick and David...

Michael Walker
Jul 19, 20213 min read
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The four things we reveal in every act of communication
There is a model of communication called the four-sides model. It was developed by Friedemann Schulz von Thun, a German psychologist. In...

Michael Walker
Jan 29, 20212 min read
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