There aren’t many benefits to being in a bad mood, even if that’s your reliable, long-standing default mode. Being in a bad mood can make you less effective, less open to creative solutions, and due to stress, it can affect your health. Most peoples’ jobs have a degree of stress, some much more than others.
Chances are you heard this wise advice from your Mom when she reminded you that if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.
There are better and worse ways to do it. The Muse’s article on delivering bad news to your boss has lessons for talking to clients and colleagues too.
The vast majority of legal disputes aren’t ended as a result of a trial.
Conversations are the social lubricant that makes relationships, moving ahead professionally, generating new clients and settling lawsuits easier.
Negotiation and mediation are all about communication.
No one is perfect. We all get upset. But some of us get upset more often than others.
Attorneys who use the mediation process may focus on the more immediate benefits (ideally a case settles, and a file closes), but there are more extensive benefits as well that all participants may benefit from.
Thinking this way doesn’t mean living a fantasy life and avoiding problems or cutting yourself off from the rest of the commonly less than positive world. More positive thinking can result in less stress in your life and consequently better health.
You may want or need to accomplish something, but that’s dependent on getting information or an action by another party.
