How to regain respect?
A full treatment of this requires more detail than can be shared here, but I will share one suggestion that may help address a similar situation; while the structure is mine, the idea originates from an anecdote in the book Crucial Conversations, and concerned how to get management and union working together again after a prolonged acrimonious strike. • Identify members on each side of the conflict. • Put key members of each side into separate rooms supplied with a flip-chart or printable white-board. • Randomly select one room and inject poison gas. • Just kidding… ignore #3 skip to 5. • Give each team 20 minutes to write down what their goals for the organization are. • Assemble both sides in one room to review the conclusions of each team. • Identify areas of alignment between the sides. Even though each side has been arguing, they will inevitably see that they have considerable overlap in their purpose. In the RCMP’s case, I would be very surprised if both sides didn’t want an effe
