Can you imagine how rewarding it would be, each day, to truly enjoy going to work? Most people spend the better part of their waking hours in jobs they do not enjoy. The happiest, most productive employees are those who have either found a job they truly enjoy, or found ways to make their current jobs more enjoyable. If we can get more pleasure and satisfaction from our work time, it would immeasurably improve the quality ofour lives. For more than 30 years, authors Joan Goldsmith and Kenneth Cloke have worked with teams and employers to create positive work environments in which communication between all levels is respectful, creativity is encouraged and people are acknowledged and supported. Thank God It's Monday provides real-world examples and exercises to stimulate employees and employers into creating better work lives. Thank God It's Monday identifies 14 core values that will make any work more stimulating and satisfying, including: Inclusion of everyone; Celebration of diversity; Open and honest communication; Risk taking; Opportunities for personal growth; Thank God It's Monday will be valuable to employees seeking to increase satisfaction in their current jobs, displaced employees searching for the work situations that are best for them, and employers and organizational leaders looking to keep their best employees by creating energetic and vibrant workplaces. Thank God It's Monday provides scores of ready-to-use activities, worksheets and exercises that will help transform the workplace into a second home that everyone wants to return to each day.

Sometimes it's necessary to push beyond the usual limits of the mediation process to achieve deeper and more lasting change. Mediating Dangerously shows how to reach beyond technical and traditional intervention to the outer edges and dark places of dispute resolution, where risk taking is essential and fundamental change is the desired result. It means opening wounds and looking beneath the surface, challenging comfortable assumptions, and exploring dangerous issues such as dishonesty, denial, apathy, domestic violence, grief, war, and slavery in order to reach a deeper level of transformational change.

Mediating Dangerously shows conflict resolution professionals how to advance beyond the traditional steps, procedures, and techniques of mediation to unveil its invisible heart and soul and to reveal the subtle and sensitive engine that drives the process of personal and organizational transformation. This book is a major new contribution to the literature of conflict resolution that will inspire and educate professionals in the field for years to come.

In The Art of Waking People Up authors Kenneth Cloke and Joan Goldsmith draw on more than thirty years of practical experience with hundreds of organizations— from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies, schools, and nonprofits— to reveal new ways of giving and receiving feedback that maximize personal and organizational change and foster lifelong learning. They show how organizations can develop the systems, processes, techniques, and relationships that affirm, rather than undermine, the intelligence and humanity of their employees. This important resource is filled with the necessary tools, interventions, and strategies managers can use to encourage their employees to speak, hear, absorb, and use the information they need to improve the way they work.

"There is no one -- NO ONE -- more deeply versed in conflict resolution, locally and globally, personally and professionally, privately and politically, than Ken. Take his trainings, read his books, hear him speak, participate in his endeavors. I can count on one hand the number of people who have profoundly influenced my life, my career and my course. Ken is one of them. A tough and realistic intelligence coupled with an enormous and generous heart." Victoria Pynchon, Judicate West ADR Panelist "Conflict Revolution transforms traditional intelligence about conflict, peace and human behavior into a comprehensive path forward, for mediators and more importantly for every citizen of our world." Anna Spain, Professor, University of Colorado and former Attorney-Adviser, U.S. Department of State "Overwhelmed by the politics of our time? Think it's all getting worse? Think again. Conflict Revolution will change you profoundly. In the confusions and conflicts of our time lie great opportunities and optimisms. Perhaps even a collective destiny that we can all embrace." Peter Adler, Keystone Center

A must read for everyone involved in or affected by conflict. The Crossroads of Conflict: A Journey into the Heart of Dispute Resolution argues that all conflicts are "cross-roads" and catalysts for learning, evolution, growth, and wisdom. It shows how to locate the root sources of conflict and remove the barriers to reconciliation, collaboration, and community. Ken Cloke's unified theory for resolving conflict is ground-breaking and destined to become a cornerstone of the future of dispute resolution.