Is destructive workplace conflict affecting your team?
Every workplace has conflict, every group, every family unit. Conflict is unavoidable wherever there are human relationships. While we often view conflict as a bad thing, there are actually two types of conflict. It can be either unproductive or productive. Today we’re going to focus on the unproductive kind, and discuss what to do about […]
How personality styles affect conflict on your team
Think about a few times when you’ve been angry. It could be a situation where you were just furious about a situation, locked in a debate or angry to have learned something unsettling. What did you do? How did you handle the conflict? Most of us have a sort of default way that we handle […]
How to disagree with your boss
I remember vividly as a young professional a time when I had a dissenting opinion about an important issue, but hesitated to offer it. The problem was that I didn’t feel encouraged to give an honest opinion if it conflicted (and it did!) with that of the people more senior to me at the time. […]
What to do when faced with an office betrayal
While we expect some office politics or complicated workplace relationships, sometimes folks are blindsided by an office betrayal. As a leadership coach, I hear different ways people feel betrayed in business. Things like: I confided in a coworker, who then gossiped to others and hurt my professional reputation. I found out that my relationship with […]
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