Wed March 28, 2018
Making Conflict Constructive: Navigating High-Growth Organizations
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Making Conflict Constructive: Helping New & Old Employees Navigate High-Growth Organizations
The Problem
If you haven’t experienced any interpersonal tension recently, stop reading. If you have and anticipate that you might again, a great opportunity awaits. Like a dog chasing its own tail, through our failure to recognize the patterns and mindsets that perpetuate conflict, many of us unwittingly participate in the very dynamics we wish would end. It’s not just the temperamental ones among us who struggle. “I’m easy-going—I’ll let it slide,” the calm, even-tempered colleagues say, turning away from tension so as not to rock any boats, and then developing inefficient work-arounds instead of improving the system.
In high-growth organizations where people join teams so regularly that the teams seem to be constantly in the “forming” stage, conditions for conflict are especially ripe.
The Promise
This workshop invites you to turn toward conflict to mine it for its treasures—refinement of values, clarification of norms and expectations, increased trust—yes, increased trust. Each time colleagues confront conflict skillfully, they gain perspective on the topic at hand and—even more importantly—they expand the capacity of the relationship to hold tension. How can you go from avoiding conflict or, at best, steeling yourself through it to a more constructive and enjoyable approach?
The Process
Through interactive games, empirical evidence, and facilitated reflection, this workshop gives an introduction to a cohesive and accessible framework for confronting interpersonal conflict & tension. Participants will learn:
Two of the most common causes of conflict
Strategies for starting the conversation
A step-by-step process for identifying and sharing strong judgments and difficult emotions
show less
The Problem
If you haven’t experienced any interpersonal tension recently, stop reading. If you have and anticipate that you might again, a great opportunity awaits. Like a dog chasing its own tail, through our failure to recognize the patterns and mindsets that perpetuate conflict, many of us unwittingly participate in the very dynamics we wish would end. It’s not just the temperamental ones among us who struggle. “I’m easy-going—I’ll let it slide,” the calm, even-tempered colleagues say, turning away from tension so as not to rock any boats, and then developing inefficient work-arounds instead of improving the system.
In high-growth organizations where people join teams so regularly that the teams seem to be constantly in the “forming” stage, conditions for conflict are especially ripe.
The Promise
This workshop invites you to turn toward conflict to mine it for its treasures—refinement of values, clarification of norms and expectations, increased trust—yes, increased trust. Each time colleagues confront conflict skillfully, they gain perspective on the topic at hand and—even more importantly—they expand the capacity of the relationship to hold tension. How can you go from avoiding conflict or, at best, steeling yourself through it to a more constructive and enjoyable approach?
The Process
Through interactive games, empirical evidence, and facilitated reflection, this workshop gives an introduction to a cohesive and accessible framework for confronting interpersonal conflict & tension. Participants will learn:
Two of the most common causes of conflict
Strategies for starting the conversation
A step-by-step process for identifying and sharing strong judgments and difficult emotions
Making Conflict Constructive: Helping New & Old Employees Navigate High-Growth Organizations
The Problem
If you haven’t experienced any interpersonal tension recently, stop reading. If you have and anticipate that you might again, a great opportunity awaits. Like a dog chasing its own tail, through our failure to recognize the patterns and mindsets that perpetuate conflict, many of us unwittingly participate in the very dynamics we wish would end. It’s not just the temperamental ones among us who struggle. “I’m easy-going—I’ll let it slide,” the calm, even-tempered colleagues say, turning away from tension so as not to rock any boats, and then developing inefficient work-arounds instead of improving the system.
In high-growth organizations where people join teams so regularly that the teams seem to be constantly in the “forming” stage, conditions for conflict are especially ripe.
The Promise
This workshop invites you to turn toward conflict to mine it for its treasures—refinement of values, clarification of norms and expectations, increased trust—yes, increased trust. Each time colleagues confront conflict skillfully, they gain perspective on the topic at hand and—even more importantly—they expand the capacity of the relationship to hold tension. How can you go from avoiding conflict or, at best, steeling yourself through it to a more constructive and enjoyable approach?
The Process
Through interactive games, empirical evidence, and facilitated reflection, this workshop gives an introduction to a cohesive and accessible framework for confronting interpersonal conflict & tension. Participants will learn:
Two of the most common causes of conflict
Strategies for starting the conversation
A step-by-step process for identifying and sharing strong judgments and difficult emotions
read more
The Problem
If you haven’t experienced any interpersonal tension recently, stop reading. If you have and anticipate that you might again, a great opportunity awaits. Like a dog chasing its own tail, through our failure to recognize the patterns and mindsets that perpetuate conflict, many of us unwittingly participate in the very dynamics we wish would end. It’s not just the temperamental ones among us who struggle. “I’m easy-going—I’ll let it slide,” the calm, even-tempered colleagues say, turning away from tension so as not to rock any boats, and then developing inefficient work-arounds instead of improving the system.
In high-growth organizations where people join teams so regularly that the teams seem to be constantly in the “forming” stage, conditions for conflict are especially ripe.
The Promise
This workshop invites you to turn toward conflict to mine it for its treasures—refinement of values, clarification of norms and expectations, increased trust—yes, increased trust. Each time colleagues confront conflict skillfully, they gain perspective on the topic at hand and—even more importantly—they expand the capacity of the relationship to hold tension. How can you go from avoiding conflict or, at best, steeling yourself through it to a more constructive and enjoyable approach?
The Process
Through interactive games, empirical evidence, and facilitated reflection, this workshop gives an introduction to a cohesive and accessible framework for confronting interpersonal conflict & tension. Participants will learn:
Two of the most common causes of conflict
Strategies for starting the conversation
A step-by-step process for identifying and sharing strong judgments and difficult emotions
show less
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