Margaret Meloni
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Conflict Resolution Expert
Margaret Meloni Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Conflict Resolution in the Workplace- Professional Peacemaker
- Career Focus
- Coach, Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur
- Affiliation
- Project Management Institute, Instructor with University of Califo ia Irvine and University of Califo ia Los Angeles
Margaret developed a passionate belief that it takes courage and skill to be human at work and that all individuals have a responsibility to treat each other with dignity, respect and compassion.
Motivated by her beliefs and the desire to make a difference in the lives of others, Margaret acted on her vision by founding Meloni Coaching Solutions, Inc. Her vision is to create a group of successful individuals who are at peace with their authentic selves; a group of people who help and support others; a group who bring humanity to the office and thrive because of it. Margaret sees a world where achieving peace and achieving success go hand-in-hand.
Margaret’s students and clients often find that what she really brings them is freedom to bring their authentic selves to the office. As a former Information Technology Executive, Margaret always knew her preference was for the people behind the technology. Now Margaret brings those beliefs to individuals from many professional backgrounds. The common thread across her client base is the desire to experience peace at work and the recognition that peace is not absence of conflict, peace is the ability to cope with conflict. For these people, Margaret Meloni is truly ‘A Path to Peace’. ™
You can learn more about Margaret and her courses, programs, and products at: MargaretMeloni.com
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Margaret Meloni Audio & Video Programs
Managing Up - Why don’t you give yourself an edge? Managing Up shows you positive behaviors that make your management glad that you are on the job.
http://www.margaretmeloni.com/managingup.html
Recovering from Damaging Situations - Use these SIX STEPS to restore your reputation and confidence when you have an ‘oops at the office’
http://www.margaretmeloni.com/rfds.html
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***Choose YOUR Battles
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. “ Jonathan Kozol: On Being a Teacher, 1981 Truthfully I do not know if I completely agree with the above quote, I bring it to you anyway because part of me thinks, ‘well this makes sense, I want to pick battles I can win’; but part of me wonders, ‘is this discouraging me from thinking big?’ I have spent so much time learning that so many of us really under estimate ourselves, that I would never want the above to be an excuse for playing it too safe or not fully utilizing our potential.
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***YOU are a Role Model
“To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.” … Milton R Sapirstein When children can see others disagree and disagree with respect and they see that nothing bad happens, what a terrific example! Disagreement is part of life. Becoming upset is part of life.
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***Bringing it ALL to Work
I remember it like it was yesterday. I still remember this supervisor looking at me and yelling, “WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WOULD NOT CHOOSE THE MINISTER?” Ok, Ok – this is a pretty old memory (from the late 1980’s), so it could be that I don’t have the details quite right. Maybe she did not really yell and maybe everyone in the room did not turn and stare at me and maybe I did not turn beet red. Or maybe some of this is how it really happened.
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***What Difference do Differences Make?
You have worked side-by-side with your team for quite some time and the good news is that it has been truly enjoyable. You get along, you work hard together and you laugh hard together. Lucky you, this might even be an example of a high performing team. You assumed it was because you had so much in common. Then one day the inevitable occurred. The conversation turned toward religion or politics or some other high stakes topic. You were not too conce ed. After all, you get along so well and this must be because you are all so alike.
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***New Ideas
“There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow… “ CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Wow now isn’t that the truth? Here is another excellent opportunity to sharpen your conflict resolution skills. Some of you accept new ideas right away in fact you live for the opportunity to challenge the status quo. Some of you don’t see the need for anything new, everything works now as-is, why gum up the process? Why fix something that is not broken? Most of you are probably somewhere in the middle.
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***Choose YOUR Battles
“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. “ Jonathan Kozol: On Being a Teacher, 1981 Truthfully I do not know if I completely agree with the above quote, I bring it to you anyway because part of me thinks, ‘well this makes sense, I want to pick battles I can win’; but part of me wonders, ‘is this discouraging me from thinking big?’ I have spent so much time learning that so many of us really under estimate ourselves, that I would never want the above to be an excuse for playing it too safe or not fully utilizing our potential.
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***3 Ways to Deal with Differences
"There are three ways of dealing with difference: domination, compromise, and integration. By domination only one side gets what it wants; by compromise neither side gets what it wants; by integration we find a way by which both sides may get what they wish..." Mary Parker Follett The above quote is an ideal reminder that there are multiple ways to deal with conflict. Is there a bias being displayed about the best way to resolve a conflict? Sure, in this instance the favored approach is integration.
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***Pick Up the Sword?
That’s it YOU have had it. You are tired of dealing with that person. THEY are always doing things on purpose to make you look bad. THEY are always doing things on purpose to get on YOUR nerves. Well it is time to do something, so YOU are going on the attack. Going on the attack can mean different things to different people or different things in different environments. For the purposes of our conversation you are not planning a physical attack. This is the workplace and let’s assume an office environment. Your form of attack looks something like this:
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***Things to Do Today: Ask for Help
“Go ahead and tell me the steps you will take to complete this assignment.” This is the question that none of my early supervisors ever asked me on the job. And boy was I relieved that they never asked this question. Why? Because I had no clue! When I was new on the job I was afraid to ask questions or to admit what I did not know. I would run back to my cubicle and frantically search for the information I needed to complete my new assignment.
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***Would the REAL You Please Stand Up?
Mary Carol read the email from Tisha and was really annoyed. She had just met with Tisha yesterday and everything seemed fine. Now here was this really harsh email. It made no sense.
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***Changing Your Mind
“Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.”rn- John Kenneth Galbraith Have you ever watched someone put enormous time and energy into proving why they were right? I am talking about the kind of person who just cannot let it go. You or someone else disagrees with them about something and then the next thing you know you get a half hour lecture on why they are right, then a follow-up phone call and several emails. Phew, that is so much energy!
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***Are YOU Playing to YOUR Strengths?
“Oh no, here we go again” thought Joe as his Quality Assurance Analyst Heidi approached him with his memo, complete with typos circled in red ink. He was not really annoyed by Heidi, she was just doing what she does; he mainly felt embarrassed. After all as the leader shouldn’t all of his work be perfect? He tried, he really did, but editing his own writing was just boring to him and not one of his strengths.
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Congratulations You're Out of Work
Did you know you can actually enjoy being out of work? You don’t need to face unemployment with fear and shame. What if you realized that this time was a gift? What if while you look for your next gig you allow yourself to enjoy this time?
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Did you have an 'OOPS' at the office? No worries, use these SIX steps to restore your reputation and your confidence.
No one is perfect. You’re human and THAT means that one day you might do or say something in the workplace that damages your reputation. You don’t have to face this by yourself. Let me teach you the SIX steps you need so that YOU are back on track and that oops remains in the past - which is exactly where it belongs!
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www.margaretmeloni.com
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Margaret Meloni
“My purpose and my passion in life is to support others as they
overcome the obstacles that prevent them from coming to peace over
conflict, in turn blocking them from living their full potential.” — Margaret Meloni
“Peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the ability to cope with conflict.” — Unknown
“Work and Play are words used to describe the same thing under different circumstances.” – Mark Twain
“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alte
atives for responding to conflict — alte
atives to passive or aggressive responses, alte
atives to violence.” — Dorothy Thompson
Contacting Margaret Meloni
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Phone: (866) 639-0487
How to get started
A great way to learn more about me is to visit http://www.margaretmeloni.com/index.html. Once there, you can access all of the services and products that I offer as well as sign up for my bi-weekly ezine, ‘Turning Point.’ In Turning Point, I share tips and insights that can get through your day experiencing more peace, and less like you’re falling to pieces.