Published: October 13, 2013Dealing with annoying people is more than understanding WHY they are annoying to you. At some point, you will have to face what is really going on.

But conflict is not always handled well, and we don’t always understand the value of the conflict we encounter.

Trudi talks about conflict and how to handle it.

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Published: October 7, 2013Tim finishes the discussion that began last week about listening and some facts to consider about why we may or may not be listening as well as we should or could.

We cover a few other gender myths, then conclude with a look at romantic love, what it is, and the real issue underneath.

The original class recording was no good, so this recording was done later. Although it is missing the class interaction that was a fun part of the class, it does contain some material that was left out of the original presentation in class.

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Published: September 29, 2013We have been talking about “gender myths”, but what is a myth? Is there any truth to the myth? And if there are gender myths, are there also social style myths?

Tim talks answers those questions, then talks about yet another gender myth. It leads to a broader discussion of communication and how to be a good listener.

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Published: September 22, 2013Trudi continues with our look at gender myths, talking about the subject of messies and leaders.

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Published: September 1, 2013Trudi discusses the most popular gender myth – Women ____ more than men.

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Published: August 25, 2013Tim looks at the compatibility problems and opportunities between the Expressive and Driver social styles.

Trudi gives a brief introduction to the next section of our discussion of social styles – the gender myths that we might believe.

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Published: August 11, 2013Tim discusses the compatibility opportunities and potential pitfalls between two Amiables and between the Amiable and Expressive.

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Published: August 4, 2013Trudi our look at the compatibility between the differnent social styles. Today we look at the Analytical-Amiable and Analytical-Expressive combinations.

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Published: July 28, 2013Trudi begins a segment on compatibility between the differnent social styles by looking at the Analytical-Analytical and Driver-Analytical combinations.

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Published: July 21, 2013TIm finishes the discussion of what each follower needs from their leaders, then looks at the flip side of what each leader needs from their followers.

We then get an intro into the next section, as we look at basic compatibitlity issues between social styles.

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