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    Time to brush up communication skills?
    alexmackenziemft
    • Dec 6, 2021
    • 3 min

    Time to brush up communication skills?

    Why learn new skills? ​People usually work on their skills when their current behaviors stop being successful in a context they are used...
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    On Closure:  Don't be a hostage of someone else's narrative
    alexmackenziemft
    • Nov 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    On Closure: Don't be a hostage of someone else's narrative

    Closure: Peaceful acceptance that something has changed or ended. I have counseled many people who, at the end of a relationship,...
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    Age Bias
    alexmackenziemft
    • May 7, 2021
    • 2 min

    Age Bias

    Negative age bias has serious negative impacts, both on the people toward whom the bias exists, and on those who hold the negative bias,...
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    Personality Conflict or Communication?
    alexmackenziemft
    • May 2, 2021
    • 2 min

    Personality Conflict or Communication?

    Have you noticed that some of the very things you loved about your romantic partner at the beginning of the relationship are the things...
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    Anger -- Valuable and Misunderstood
    alexmackenziemft
    • Jul 17, 2019
    • 3 min

    Anger -- Valuable and Misunderstood

    Anger gets a bad rap.  Like all of our emotions, anger has a purpose, and while many of us can use a tune-up in terms of the way we...
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    Coaching-- Feedback in Professional Context
    alexmackenziemft
    • Jul 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Coaching-- Feedback in Professional Context

    STAR Model (Business Feedback) In some roles, both in business and personal life, we are responsible for getting results, not from our...
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    Interpersonal Feedback
    alexmackenziemft
    • Jul 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Interpersonal Feedback

    Providing Feedback: ​I like to distinguish between two types of feedback -- personal and business. It's not that one works exclusively...
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    Emotional Intelligence
    alexmackenziemft
    • Jun 26, 2019
    • 2 min

    Emotional Intelligence

    Have you ever said, “I was so mad, I didn’t have any choice?” Have you heard a family member say, “I was so sad that I had to…?” If so,...
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    Empathic Leadership
    alexmackenziemft
    • Jun 26, 2019
    • 3 min

    Empathic Leadership

    Author, Alex Mackenzie, 1/14 Who is a leader? Everyone is a leader in some respects. Even if you’re not a formal manager with...
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    Quick and Dirty Tips for Conflict Resolution
    alexmackenziemft
    • Jun 26, 2019
    • 3 min

    Quick and Dirty Tips for Conflict Resolution

    ​When facilitating conflict resolution, I like to use William Ury's work -- he is the author of many cutting edge books on this topic...
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