"Transforming conflict and building collaborative relationships"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFF2D7">   <script type="text/javascript">var MenuLinkedBy="AllWebMenus [4]",awmMenuName="CollProcVer2",awmBN="664";awmAltUrl="";</script><script charset="UTF-8" src="CollProcVer2.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">awmBuildMenu();</script>  <table border="0" width="775" cellpadding="7" height="455" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="534" height="73" align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <img border="0" src="images/McMahonLogoWeg.jpg" width="389" height="130"> </td> <td width="219" height="110" align="left" bgcolor="#244800" rowspan="2"> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF" face="Georgia">617 Steele St., Denver, Colorado 80206 USA<br> +303-333-1960<br> E-mail: </font><a href="mailto:jpmcmahon@jpmcmahon.com"><font face="Georgia" size="2" color="#FFFF00">jpmcmahon@jpmcmahon.com</font></a></b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="534" height="23" align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <i><b><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#666633"><sup>Transforming conflict and building Collaborative relationships</sup></font></b></i> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="753" height="7" align="left" bgcolor="#CE5300" background="images/brnbackgnd2.gif" colspan="2"> <p><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Healthy approach to conflict</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="753" height="8" align="left" colspan="2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="763" height="475" valign="top" colspan="2"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="914" height="425" bordercolor="#FFFFFF"> <tr> <td width="303" height="347" valign="top" align="left"> </td> <td width="1107" height="347" valign="top" align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><font size="3">Collaborative processes</font><font face="Arial" size="1"><sup>®</sup></font></b> works to help organizations and associations find solutions to current issues through a more direct approach to conflict. Although it is common to avoid conflict, that avoidance is costly - as the conflict usually reemerges again.</font> <p><font size="2" face="Arial">A more healthy approach to conflict includes:</font></p> <ul msimagelist> <ul> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font size="2" face="Arial">Using dialogue rather than debate.</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font size="2" face="Arial">Jointly diagnosing the issues in the conflict and finding paths to relational improvement and decision making.</font></li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 5"><font size="2" face="Arial">Uses <a href="transformation.html">conflict transformation</a> - moving beyond mere "resolution."</font></li> </ul> </ul> </td> <td width="50" height="347" valign="top" align="left"> </td> <td width="191" height="347" valign="top" align="left"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="522" height="21"> </td> <td colspan="3" width="993" height="21"> <font face="Arial" size="1"><b>© 2007-08 JP McMahon, all rights reserved</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="522" height="21"> </td> <td colspan="3" width="993" height="21"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>