1028: How to Bridge Disagreements and Create More Win-Win agreements with Robert Fersh

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Robert Fersh shares tried and tested strategies for de-escalating conflict and bridging disagreements.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to find shared goals to move past differences

2) The best way to deal with defensiveness

3) What to do when you fundamentally disagree

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— ABOUT ROBERT —

Rob Fersh is a seasoned consensus-builder and has spent over 45 years bridging policy differences and moving public policy forward in Washington DC, working for Congress, in the Executive Branch, and in leading non-profits. He studied at Cornell University and Boston University School of Law. Rob founded Convergence Center for Policy Resolution in 2009 after directing a national anti-hunger organization. Rob's work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and CNBC.

• Book: From Conflict to Convergence: Coming Together to Solve Tough Problems

• Website: ConvergencePolicy.org

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by William Ury and Robert Fisher

• Book: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen Covey

• Past episode: 938: William Ury on How to Thrive in Conflict

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0:00.0	Even as smart as you may be or as well-informed as you may be, just develop a little humility
0:12.5	that you may not know everything. And you begin to engage people in respectful conversation
0:17.3	about different ideas that help meet the goals and the principles you've already
0:21.5	established when this is well done. Conflict can push thinking to a higher level and up bringing
0:26.8	out better solutions than any one party had to begin with and that's our experience.
0:36.7	That's Rob Versch.
0:37.7	He's the founder of the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution and has spent over 45 years moving
0:42.9	public policy forward in Washington, D.C.
0:45.0	He's also the co-author of the book, From Conflict to Convergence, coming together to solve
0:49.4	tough problems.
0:50.4	So you'll learn, one, how to find shared goals to move past differences.
0:53.8	Two, the best way to deal with defensiveness.
0:56.6	And three, what to do when you just fundamentally disagree.
1:01.0	And if you want to get a quick summary recap of these takeaways,
1:04.3	I recommend you sign up for the free Golden Nugget email newsletter at Awesome at Your Job.com.
1:08.8	I'm Pete Bikaitis.
1:10.0	This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now I'm Pete Bucydis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job.
1:11.6	And now, here's Rob.
1:16.9	Rob, welcome.
1:18.3	Thanks, Pete.
1:18.9	Nice to be here.
1:20.0	I'm excited to dig into some of your goodness here.
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