WomensMedia Conflict Management Series

1. Recognize Conflict Styles and Strategies
2. Conflict Management using the strategies of
   Abandoning, Avoiding, and Dominating
3. Conflict Management using the strategies of
   Obliging, Getting Help, and Using Humor
4. Conflict Management using the strategies of
   Postponing and Compromise
5. Conflict Management using the strategies of
   Integrating and Collaborating

How to Cope with Anger
Reappraise...Respond...Relinquish...Relax.
Emotionally-driven automatic responses are usually learned in childhood, so by adulthood reacting angrily can be a habit.

How to Handle Backstabbers at Work
Never overlook the damage backstabbers can do. Don’t laugh at them or shrug off their behavior. If you do, it just reinforces their control and their negative behavior. They won’t change, because this behavior has worked for them in the past.

How to Stay Positive
in a Negative Workplace
How do you keep the contagious effect of negativity from rubbing off on you? Using our expert’s tips you can stay positive in a negative environment!

A Victim Says, "Why Does This Keep Happening To Me?"
Living powerless in your circumstances comes at a hefty price: It causes confusion, upset and anger. It robs you of clarity and peace and keeps you from getting what you want out of life.

Four Strategies for Dealing with Downturns
and Uncertainty

Sex Discrimination: What should you do now?
So you know you’re facing unfair sex discrimination on the job. Maybe you found out your employer is systematically paying women less than men for the same work. Or you got fired as soon as you said you were pregnant. Or your male coworkers have been groping and propositioning you and the other women relentlessly, and the company won’t make them stop. Should you sue?

Sex in the Workplace:
Still a Challenge for the Corporate Woman
"My Boss Asked Me to Dinner and Wanted Me for Dessert" ran the title at the top of a recent Fortune advice column. Guess what: sex remains alive and well in the American corporate workplace, and so does the double standard. And for many women eager to climb the corporate ladder, these realities can be career-threatening.

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