Is your team drowning in conflict?

Have you ever wondered why some people make life so much harder for themselves than it needs to be? Not only does this rob them of vital life-energy, it costs them a lot of happiness through lost harmony in their business and personal relationships.

What am I talking about?

Conflict. Nobody likes it, yet very few people know how to handle it, and it’s everywhere in our society. It’s inescapable.

Conflict! It's all over the place.
Conflict is not a bad thing in a team - it can lead to innovation and breakthrough -- but unresolved conflict can tear your team apart. It's not hard to work through conflict, but it takes effort.

The key effort being that you must deal with the issue, not the person. And because we are humans with lots of emotions, that makes it tough. We aren't the best at separting the issue from the person because it just mushes together in our minds.
 

Think for a second -- when have you recently experienced conflict? Now, I’m not talking about a knock-down, drag-out fist fight or screaming match.

• This could be as simple as someone at the office taking the last of the coffee…
• Or feeling your blood boil just a little bit as someone cut you off on the freeway…
• Or maybe your friends wanted Thai food last night and you wanted Italian…

These seeds of conflict invade our days in subtle ways, and build up over time to create resentment and frustration, which can drastically damage relationships, increase  stress levels and create a “culture of conflict” that negatively affects everyone…including YOU.

Fortunately, there are steps that you can take to minimize conflict, and transform it into cooperation and collaboration. You don’t have to live with it -- all it takes is a little knowledge, practice and skill. And you can learn now.