If you’re looking to ramp up your team’s preparedness for conflict and its resolution, you may be wondering what the best resources for that information might be. Workplace conflict training can be obtained from multiple types of resources where employees can learn different strategies and skills to prevent, reduce, or effectively respond to conflict when...

Have you ever found yourself in proximity to two disputing colleagues at work? Whether you’re preparing for this age-old interview question, ramping up your leadership skills for a promotion, or simply self-reflecting on ways to minimize stress at work, getting to know your own conflict resolution style and generating mindfulness around your own reactivity can...

So you’re managing a team that can’t seem to avoid personality conflicts in the workplace? While these conflicts are inevitable in small doses, if your team is encountering them chronically, there are some steps you’ll want to take to ensure they don’t create larger and long-lasting impacts within your organization. Stress, low output, high turnover,...

If you’re noticing conflict keeps arising on your team or that it’s slow to resolve when it does erupt, you might want to consider looking at the policies and procedures in place around conflict. Many leaders may look directly to the people involved with conflict to identify trigger points. It’s true that certain personalities may...

While your job may not include any responsibilities around conflict or people-management, flexing your conflict resolution skills at work can benefit you in myriad ways. Some people have natural skills and competency around de-escalating tension, communicating fairly, and identifying solutions. If you see yourself in that description, you may want to consider putting those skills...

Summary of: GanshKumar, R., Sujatha, L., & Guru, K. (2021). Effectiveness of conflict management games and activities in workplace. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, 12(11), 395-400. https://doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i11.5891 Background & Theory This article explores the benefits of conflict management games (and similar activities) to determine conflict management styles within a team in the workplace...

Summary of: De Clercq, D., Fatima, T., & Jahanzeb, S. (2021). Gossiping about an arrogant leader: Sparked by inconsistent leadership, mitigated by employee resilience. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 57(3), 269–289. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0021886320917520 Background & Theory: Arrogant leadership is defined as the practice by which leaders engage in presumptuous claims about their competencies, have inflated...

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