by Tom Esch | Aug 17, 2011 | How to Handle Polarizing Topics and Challenging People, Blog
I was with a group one time when a person “hijacked” the group. This is a term in my trade which describes what happens when a person, or a small group, takes control of a situation or a group process without permission to do so. In this case it was in the midst of a...
by Tom Esch | Jun 27, 2011 | How to Handle Polarizing Topics and Challenging People, Blog
There was a street fight right in front of our house, in Minneapolis, on New Year’s Eve last year at about 2 a.m. A group of eight young men, probably 16-18 yrs old, yelling and screaming and punching. They were either drunk or high or both and very loud. Kristen, my...