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Conflict Can Break – or Make – Your Business

Do you define conflict in the workplace with incidents of hostility, simmering resentment, or words spoken in anger?  Some talk about verbal “arm-wrestling” in the conference room where the opponents are also close colleagues, or ferocious disagreements that produce outstanding new approaches and ideas. All of these can accurately be described as conflict situations; the… Continue reading Conflict Can Break – or Make – Your Business

You Don’t Always Have to Be the Conflict Referee

“Why do I always have to be the referee?” This is a question we have been asked many times by leaders. The complaint is voiced out of frustration: frustration that the leader’s team members cannot seem to resolve conflicts on their own. Every major dispute, minor disagreement, and even simple difference of opinion is escalated… Continue reading You Don’t Always Have to Be the Conflict Referee