Interacting with people brings problems with people. The closer the contact, the greater the potential for conflict. In How to Solve Your People Problems, Dr. Alan Godwin shares biblical, practical principles to help readers avoid conflict when possible and handle difficult encounters constructively.
The key to healthy, growing relationships is successfully handling differences. Dr. Godwin gives readers the tools and the framework to:
benefit from every relationship
handle conflict with grace, reason, and flexibility
change problem situations into positive encounters
reduce conflict situations
successfully deal with unreasonable people
This valuable resource will help readers successfully live and work with others, know how to implement conflict resolution, negotiate problem areas, and create positive connections even when people disagree.
ENDORSEMENTS
“Some of our toughest challenges at work are the people problems. I highly recommend Dr. Godwin’s book to business and professional people who are looking for better ways to handle workplace conflicts.” —Craven Crowell, former chairman, Tennessee Valley Authority
“I think Dr. Godwin’s book is a valuable addition to the literature on relationships and conflict. His recommendations and principles can enhance any relationship, and practicing them will enable nearly anyone to handle conflict in a more productive and healthy manner. It is very good advice.” —Gregory W. Lester, Ph.D., author of Power with People
“Dr. Alan Godwin has written a book which gives ministers, lay people, and caregivers a much deeper understanding of conflict and how to relate to those individuals who create such havoc in the home, the church, and the workplace. The book is very practical in that it deals clearly with the causes and solutions of various kinds of conflict…Dr. Godwin’s insights and careful use of Scriptural, psychological, and sociological truth has helped me sharpen my skills in conflict resolution to give hope to those who are caught in seemingly hopeless situations.” —Dr. Leonard Markham, pastor and past president, Tennessee Baptist Convention
“Do you want to have better relationships with the people you really like? And, more importantly, do you want healthier and more effective communication with those people who try your patience? Then How to Solve Your People Problems is for you! Applying these ageless principles will, I predict, dramatically reduce conflicts at work, at school, between parents and children, at church, in the neighborhood, between friends, in the extended family, and in any setting populated with people.” —Walt Larimore, M.D., coauthor of His Brain, Her Brain
“Dr. Godwin’s How to Solve Your People Problems gives good-humored, practical advice. Cooperative problem-solving strategies that work with reasonable people often backfire with those who are not open to reason. Dr. Godwin’s proposals for solving problems with unreasonable folks are among the especially fine gems in this useful and reader friendly volume.” —Susan Heitler, Ph.D., author of From Conflict to Resolution
“This book showed me how to love troublemakers wholeheartedly and how to spend my emotional, mental, and physical energy on the ministry I love and not on the joy stealers. I can describe this book in one word—FREEDOM.” —Suzette Sanderfer, former editor-in-chief, Lifeway Christian Resources