Lessons of Conflict
A few weeks ago I was able to participate in a Managing Conflict Course that my work is piloting. It was a 4 hour session which included an amazing speaker with a background as a communications college professor and experience as a professional mediator corporately and for private couples. Items on the agenda included: understanding your attitudes and beliefs about conflict, conflict is a natural part of team growth, examining your individual conflict style, knowing our "Hot Buttons" or triggers, levels of conflict: known when to engage, and lastly developing skills to managing conflict. Since I think we can agree that conflict is an inventible natural part of life, let's move on to what conflict means when you find it present in your life at work and at home. Lessons of Conflict: Something we are doing is no longer useful. It's time to refocus or redirect. We've lost self-clarity. We have an unmet need. We need to reclaim something we have ...