FAQ

Anyone and everyone. Those who are active as Mediators and Conflict Resolution/Management professionals will find this new approach compelling and can begin to use it right away. Academics, professors and teachers can add this book to their course syllabus and influence generations to come. Executives and managers in the public, private or voluntary sectors can help their teams soar when they use this six-step method. Anyone in a leadership role in a corporation, a small, medium or large business, a charitable or community organization, a union, or a church will benefit from following The Collaborative Path.

GTY is a reactive method to conflict. It provides a process for negotiating a solution to the conflict. By comparison, The Collaborative Path is a proactive approach to everyday life. Collaboration prevents conflict from arising, thereby increasing both effectiveness and harmony in your homes, communities, and families.

Those models are greatly under-utilized because people recoil from the words themselves and instinctively avoid the topic. And, these models do nothing to prevent conflict from arising. 

Did you ever wonder why conflict resolution professionals have to promote their services and struggle to do it? 

The decades-old conflict resolution model has practitioners waiting for a given conflict to get so bad or unbearable that people eventually come to them for help, whether recognizing the value of the service or not. Most conflicts don’t show up at the door. Most conflicts are addressed through traditional and inherently complex bargaining and negotiation which almost never result in satisfactory resolution for the parties. And worse, current approaches don’t do anything about the underlying problem of poor communications. 

The evidence? If people weren’t afraid of the very word “conflict”, then principled negotiations would have taken off in the 1980s.

This method is meant to be a “DIY” approach to strengthen conversations, problem-solving, and decision-making in our daily lives. For groups and organizations, the situations at play are apt to be more complex and having a facilitator guide the process can be a good investment. In less complicated situations, I’ll make myself available to you for questions and support, so that you can use this approach in any setting.

Because the human costs are emotionally draining, damaging and long-lasting.

If using this collaborative approach doesn’t increase productivity and effectiveness noticeably, your group will enjoy a more supportive and engaging workplace when you make this shift.

Because the business costs of not taking action are staggering. Multiple undisputed studies show that, on average, every worker wastes 2.5 hours per week on unproductive workplace tensions. That’s 30 hours over three months! 

Because the human costs are emotionally draining, damaging and long-lasting.

Using this collaborative approach will increase productivity and effectiveness noticeably, and your group will enjoy a more supportive and engaging workplace when you make this shift.

Timelines vary, and the first step is a conversation where we can explore the range of objectives and outcomes you desire. Then, we can set up a plan to deliver those outcomes.

Contact me and let’s work out an arrangement. When I’m consulting on your workplace or organizational needs and facilitating sessions, the costs depend on the size of the group, location etc. What type of workshop and its duration will impact costs. We can have a conversation about your need for speaking engagements and class lectures. Once we’ve explored the context and your needs, we can have a dialogue to establish fees.

I equip participants in my workshops and training sessions with practical tools such as work sheets and guides plus other information in written form.

I’m also producing a second book that constitutes a “Tool Kit” and companion piece for The Collaborative Path. This will be published soon, in the months to come.