Calculate “The Cost of Conflict”

“Unmanaged conflict is the largest reducible cost in organizations today, and the least recognized.”

— author Daniel Dana in “Prevention and Early Resolution of Workplace Conflict.”

The nonprofit Ku‘ikahi Mediation Center will host a free talk from noon-1 p.m. Thursday as part of its “Finding Solutions, Growing Peace” Brown Bag Lunch Series in the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, 655 Kilauea Ave. in Hilo.

This month’s speaker is Diane Petropulos on the topic “The Cost of Conflict: How to Calculate its Impact on Your Workplace.”

“Learn about the financial cost of conflict and the formulas for calculating its impact in your workplace,” Petropulos said. “Consider the potential for turning destructive conflict into constructive problem-solving.”

Petropulos, M.A., is a principal in ADRinACTION, offering mediation, facilitation and training services in the areas of mediation and workplace conflict.

Petropulos has developed and conducted workshops and training throughout Hawaii, and is a former lecturer at the master’s level in the Human Resource Management Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has mediated hundreds of court cases for Maui Mediation Services and serves on its board.

Ku‘ikahi’s Brown Bag Lunch Series is free and open to the public. Talks are the third Thursdays of each month. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunch, enjoy an informal and educational talk-story session and meet others interested in “Finding Solutions, Growing Peace.”

This lunch-and-learn series is made possible thanks in part to funding from the Atherton Family Foundation.

For more information, contact Ku‘ikahi program coordinator Gail Takaki at 935-7844, ext. 9, gail@hawaiimediation.org, or visit www.hawaiimediaiton.org.