AOD Blog Post #1
Situation: Vince and Ian arguing relentlessly.
AOD Principle(s) Applied: Active Listening, Reflection, Negotiation, Evaluation and Diversity.
Recap: So in a rather large nutshell, I was in a delightfully heated dispute with Ian. We choose to engage in this sport rather frequently and with a tasteful amount of consistency. We also choose to verbally kill each other to no avail. Neither of us gain from it and we finally realized that in those situations, neither of us are right. But neither of us are entirely wrong either. It took a lot of Active Listening on both of our parts to finally understand where the other person was coming from. When a person would Evaluate the other persons actions, both would Reflect on how this statement made them feel. We eventually Negotiated to the point of understanding and respecting each other's Diversity in the matter. We understood that words like "always" and "never" are NEVER true and both of us are always somewhat responsible for the argument. By unifying many AOD principles and incorporating them into our argument, we arrived upon a nicely found conclusion that allowed us to finally understand each other's viewpoints and consequently settle the dispute.
AOD Principle(s) Applied: Active Listening, Reflection, Negotiation, Evaluation and Diversity.
Recap: So in a rather large nutshell, I was in a delightfully heated dispute with Ian. We choose to engage in this sport rather frequently and with a tasteful amount of consistency. We also choose to verbally kill each other to no avail. Neither of us gain from it and we finally realized that in those situations, neither of us are right. But neither of us are entirely wrong either. It took a lot of Active Listening on both of our parts to finally understand where the other person was coming from. When a person would Evaluate the other persons actions, both would Reflect on how this statement made them feel. We eventually Negotiated to the point of understanding and respecting each other's Diversity in the matter. We understood that words like "always" and "never" are NEVER true and both of us are always somewhat responsible for the argument. By unifying many AOD principles and incorporating them into our argument, we arrived upon a nicely found conclusion that allowed us to finally understand each other's viewpoints and consequently settle the dispute.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007.
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