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When Relationships Shape the Future of Your Business

I love working with family and couple-driven businesses because it brings together my two passions: relationship skills and conflict management. Our personal, family, and business lives are tightly woven together. When stress builds in one area, it almost always...
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When Relationships Shape the Future of Your Business

I love working with family and couple-driven businesses because it brings together my two passions: relationship skills and conflict management....

Managing Difficult Conversations

Breaking Free from Gridlock When conflicts get stuck—repetitive, emotional, and exhausting—both people often feel unheard, judged, or misunderstood. The cycle...

How to Be Heard: 6 Strategies to Get Your Point Across Without Losing Connection

We all want to feel seen and heard — in love, in business, in the boardroom, and at the kitchen...

6 Love Languages for Couples in Business & in Love

What Gary Chapman Didn’t Write — But Every Founder and Couple in Business Needs to Know We all know Gary...

The Balancing Act: Skills for a Thriving Relationship at Work or at Home

As a social worker, I have been working with relationship skills and conflicts in communities, organisations and with individuals for...

When Relationships Shape the Future of Your Business

“Elizabeth consulted with all family members confidentially, assessing and guiding us in ways that empowered individuals to lead relationship repairs...

Family Dynamics Start with ‘The Story of Us’

Families often pass their relationship styles from generation to generation, so recognising past patterns can help families choose a better...

Navigating Family Relationships and Business Challenges: 6 Signs It’s Time for Coaching

Managing the different stresses, strains and perceptions between personal relationships and business partnerships in a family (or value-driven) business can...

The Skills of Conflict Confidence© – Manage Difficult Emotions

We must address our discomfort with difficult emotions like anger, envy, resentment and revenge to effectively manage conflict. We create...

How much Rudeness is Tolerated in Your Workplace?

Is unnecessary rudeness tolerated in your workplace? Have you ever been shouted at during a meeting? Repeatedly been ignored, interrupted...

The First 3 Minutes of Difficult Conversations Predict the Outcome

The likelihood of a difficult conversation ending in an escalating argument, or finding a reasonable resolution and compromise, all depends...

Keeping Your Cool this Christmas!

The pressures at the end of the year can be overwhelming These pressures can lead to increased stress, heightened emotions...

Could Conflict Coaching Help You Improve Your Relationships?

What is Conflict Coaching? In our increasingly diverse world, with different views, personalities, communication styles and expectations, conflicts are more...

Confident Conflict Conversations: ‘It Never Gets Easier, You Just Get Better’

How do you initiate conversations that make you uncomfortable and vulnerable? When you’re hesitant to talk about conflict, it can...

First Principles of Conflict Confidence©: Conflict is a skill, Not an Emotion

Many years ago, sadly, I was very adept at being caught up in unpleasant conflicts – and it was a...

You Mainly Feel the Way You Think

Albert Ellis' twelve irrational beliefs “Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or lessthan a certain kind –...

COVID Frustrations & Harassment of Frontline Workers

Despite how intelligent or sensible we think we are, we’re all a little irrational. This is especially true in conflict...

Check Your Conflict Assumptions

Setting relationship intentions Each January I quietly sit awhile and set my relationships intentions for the year ahead, in both...

5 Principals for No Fault Discussions

You can create more peace in every conversation you have. Too often fault and blame about the past gets in...

Seriously Social Podcast Interview with Simone Douglas, November 2020

Watch this informative video where Elizabeth is a guest on the Seriously Social podcast.

A COVID19 Story of Compassion and Gratitude

In these difficult times so many of us are experiencing during the COVID19 pandemic it is often the kindness of...

The First 3 Minutes of Difficult Conversations Predict the Outcome

The likelihood of a difficult conversation ending in an escalating argument, or finding reasonable resolution and compromise, all depends on...

Bad Boss Blues: Australian Workplace Harassment Statistics Tell a Sad Story

You might even recall the Appoc scandal from 2016. There’s been a decade of concerted effort to raise awareness about workplace bullying...

Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

Every organisational values statement I have ever read includes the words respect, integrity and trust. But if you were to ask staff in many...

Does Your Workplace Culture Make You Smile?

Not many organisations define their values and service practice succinctly and in a way that captures your imagination. Rembrandt Living,...

Reading the Slouch – Part 2

When I published ‘Reading the Slouch’ in April this year, I was overwhelmed by the responses I received from my readers. That...

8 Essentials tips to stop you from killing your ex (figuratively speaking)

Julie is in my office again, frustrated with herself because she blew her cool with her ex, and found herself...

Essential Secrets to More Confidence!

Psst: Contrary to popular belief, confidence is not an emotion. I used to think that confidence was feeling cool and...

5 Top Tips to Cure Office Conflicts

Workplace conflicts steal your energy and motivation at the office. Not to mention the additional stress you take home, the...

Small Package, Big Influence

This is a remarkable story about how to resolve workplace conflict with mindfulness and empathy. There are many bridges to...

9 Tips To Help Your Child Adjust to Separation

When a family breaks up it is an anxious time for any parent. You’re struggling with your own personal pain...

Have I Got a Story for You!

Oh, I have I got a tale for you! Margaret’s story Margaret and I met a cocktail networking event, an...

Quickly Identify Controlling People – Try the Five Key Words Test

How do you recognise controlling people? People who are likely to behave in ways that are conflict-driven, controlling, or manipulative,...

What is the Arc of Your Story?

Conflict makes our world turn, our heads spin, our hearts race and sometimes our hearts break.  It is the arc...

Customer Service Under Duress

Creating a culture that is conducive to dealing with difficult and demanding people To create a culture like this, your...

Irrationally Yours

In the real world, we can all be a little difficult and demanding at times when worried, stressed, or feeling...

Here’s to The Best Teacher I’ve Never Met!

It’s very embarrassing to admit this, but I have been caught out being difficult and demanding. This story reveals an...

The Tip of The Iceberg

One month ago Anthony was excited about his promotion to Head of Business Development, after five years of hard work...

The Tipping Point

I met Janni when she was at her lowest. She wanted to quit and run away from a job she...

This is Todays’ No 1 Workplace Problem

Narcissistic Leaders We’re often attracted to narcissist leaders who can be charming and persuasive, full of stories of triumph, the...

Are You an Emotion Coach?

Your children’s emotions are not always easy to read and sometimes might be puzzling. Children often lack the words to...

What’s Your Leadership Pain Tolerance?

Jules is a late-30s Senior Manager working on a significant national project, amidst the usual amount of corporate change. The...

Tactics that Trip You Up: Reading the Slouch

There are some behaviours that can initially confuse or distract you from recognising a controlling person. Tactics that trip you...

Impolite, Insolent and Improper – Don’t Ignore This!

Ignoring workplace incivility is a costly risk to your business Wikipedia describes workplace incivility as “… low-intensity [aberrant] behaviour with ambiguous intent...

The 3 Essentials for Conflict Confidence with Difficult People

Keep your observation objective, remain curious and manage your connection during conflict situations with difficult and controlling people. These 3...

5 Key Indicators you are Dealing with a Highly Controlling Person

Domineering, demanding, difficult, controlling, bossy, inflexible, over-the-top, short–fuse, Drama Queen/King… All words often used to describe someone whose comments, behaviour and...

Buddhist Perspectives on Depression

Depression has been a part of the human condition for as long as history has been recorded. Known by various...

Private: Great Sex is all about Listening

I want to talk to you about making love. Not sex but making love happen, in the small and important...

5 Sure-Fire Tips to Insure Your Marriage

What are the secrets to lasting relationship success? The secret is 6 hours a week. Happy couples consciously devote 6...

7 Simple Steps to Living with Purpose

What’s your definition of a purposeful life? For me, it’s being able to live my life without the inner conflict...

Gottman Method Couples Therapy

The Gottman Method Couples Therapy for Healthy Relationships There’s science and art to creating strong, satisfying and lasting relationships. Dr...

Dealing with Difficult People – 6 Survival Strategies You’ll Want to Know!

Demanding, Dominant and Controlling People are an Increasing Problem at Work and in Business. Research indicates that the number of...

The Man’s Guide to Women

Dr. John Gottman, renowned researcher in to couple relationships and parenting has recently published a long awaited book: The Man’s Guide...

5 Top Tips for Curing Office Conflicts

This article first appeared in The Business Woman Media 6/04/2017 - 5 Top tips for curing office conflicts. Workplace conflicts...

Resilience: Step forward into what you really want

Resilience is managing balance Balance between your stress and fear and finding your creativity and determination. It’s really important that...

Confidence Tips that May Surprise You!

Contrary to popular belief – Confidence is not an emotion. Confidence is a skill. Like any skill, it takes time...