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Resolving Neighborhood Conflicts:
Building Skills for Success
Have you ever experienced these or other similar challenging situations:
· Your neighbor's dog barks and awakens you several nights a week
· A neighbor wants to convert his garage into an apartment and you're concerned about noise, house values dropping, etc.
· You disagree with a developer's plans for building in your neighborhood
· Your neighbor has constructed a fence on what you consider to be your property.
· Neighborhood teenagers are congregating at businesses and on the sidewalks in a three block area, causing disruption for the businesses and pedestrians
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Your association board members cannot get along or a leader wants
everything done his or her way
Whether you're facing these difficulties as an individual or as a neighborhood,
homeowner or condo association, you can acquire skills to help negotiate an outcome that is workable for everyone.
Workshop 101
You will learn:
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Sources of conflict
· How to listen to understand
· How to work toward win-win solutions
Workshop 102
You will learn:
· Skills to help you communicate better
· To focus on interests, not positions
· To be a change agent for your neighborhood
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