Thomas Gordon

Thomas Gordon , born the March 11th 1918, with the the United States of America, is deceased the August 26th 2002.

Doctor in clinical Psychology. Author of reputation since years 1960-1970 in the United States, Thomas Gordon proposed an new approach of the oral communication. He was a pioneer in the conceptualization of the resolution of the disagreements Gain-gaining or without loser .

The man

Thomas Gordon was proposed three times for the Nobel Prize of peace. He received the gold medal of the humanistic Association of psychology for his exceptional contribution to the diffusion of psychology in the public interest.

The Gordon method

The bases of the method developed by Thomas Gordon take again - amongst other things - the searchs for Abraham Maslow, on the satisfaction of the needs. It combined the relation of Reconnaissance, the search for comprehension of the other and the assertion of oneself for a design of the resolution of the conflicts without loser .

The " Gordon" method; , teaching bound for any public (private individuals or companies), seemingly simple bases to implement, rests on the concept of " relations Gain-gaining ".

The application in company is done through the concept of " win-win" management, taken again by many authors, in particular in Negotiation.

Two principal tools frame this method: the message I and Listening Activates (founded on the Empathie)…

Several organizations in France and in the world teach this method (43 countries).

One of them, exempted in Paris, in Belgium and Switzerland, holds the exclusiveness in the Gordon method for the executives and the managerial teams. These training courses, directly inspired of the book " Leaders effectiveness Training" of Thomas Gordon, are localized under the " term; Frameworks and leader efficaces". According to the same concept, his wife, Linda Adams, wrote a work effective Femmes .

The Gordon method was introduced in France by Béatrice Bellisa and its son Stephan Donadey. They started by diffusing the formations intended for the parents, then with the teachers and finally with the executives and leaders, before the licenses are not bought in 1987.

Works

effective Leaders: effectiveness by collaboration - 2006
Teaching effective - 2005
To educate without punishing: to learn the self-discipline with the children - 2003
Relations effective: how to build and maintain good relationships - 1996
Parents effective: another listening of the child - 1996

External bonds

Gordon France Formations
Gordon International Training

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