Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution

Conflicts are commonplace everywhere, workplaces being no exception. It may be that you can’t stand the way your boss puts on airs, or an incorrigible assistant. These give rise to conflicts, and conflict resolution becomes a necessity.

Granted that conflicts do occur, all we can do is either minimize the chances for conflicts, or resolve them as they arise. However, with a view to exercising some effective controls towards resolution of conflict, let’s see why we get into conflicts so often with somebody.

Here are some measures for minimizing and resolving common types of conflicts.

Stay Relaxed for Conflict resolution

Anger is a deterrent to good performance and it discourages others from getting closer to you or being open with you.

Adopt correct timing and place for Conflict Resolution

If you try to resolve a conflict in haste amidst outsiders and various interruptions, the other party could feel rushed, cornered, deceived and humiliated. And that can make your attempt at resolution of conflict fall flat on its face.

Properly Identify the Issue

Concentrate on the issue/s to the conflict and not on the person/s. Admit, and take the blame for your share and avoid passing the buck to the other party and insulting and demeaning him/her.

Give an Ear to the Other Side of the Story

The key to conflict resolution lies in being able to listen with an open mind, and talking less. It is something difficult to do when you are provoked or outraged, but there is no other way.

Have a Wide Choice of Resolutions

In a conflict, involving many individuals pool suggestions, for reconciliation from as many individuals as possible. You could then jointly evaluate all suggestions for resolution of conflict in a more conciliatory atmosphere avoiding stubborn, hostile attitudes.

Stick to the Agreement of your conflict resolution

Once all parties concerned reach some consensus on a conflict resolution solution, they must honor it and abide by it. There could be setbacks giving rise to further minor disputes during the transition stage. But if all realize that such minor deviations are inevitable, and ride them smoothly instead of getting unduly provoked, then that could lay a good foundation for a lasting long-term peace.

Improve on the foundation laid by acting with good intentions.

Keep possible saboteurs under observation and under control without disturbing them. Even if everything does not become normal immediately, be thankful that the ice has been broken; issues have been identified, acknowledged and addressed - reducing distrust and animosity - so that all are now in good communication. You have taken one big step towards conflict resolution.

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Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution

If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication. – Stephen Covey

Love the Woods

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Brandenberg Gate

Germany Brandenburg Gate Nov 09, 1989

Berlin—the Game Changer

Twenty-two years ago the Berlin Wall fell. Few then recognized the profound game changer that would be in terms of world events.

By Ron Fraser

Truly remarkable that as a kid I heard of these fantastic prophecies of the rise of the beast and now they are being fulfilled before my very eyes.” Thus responded one of our online readers this week. And that is the type of comment we hear increasingly from a number of our readers and subscribers as the great global disorder that commenced with the fall of the Berlin Wall grows to tectonic proportions with the passing of each day.

The 50th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall was celebrated with a great deal of hoopla in Germany earlier this year. By comparison, the 22nd anniversary of its fall passed yesterday with little publicity. The main reason was that the global events affecting us all today, which can be tracked back to Nov. 9, 1989, have literally overwhelmed the ability of the press and mass media to not only follow them, but to make any real sense out of them, let alone predict their outcome.

The Berlin Wall cracked and fell on Nov. 9, 1989, the scene was immediately set for the reunification of the German nation. That event is the lead cause of events that are shaking this planet’s whole financial structure at this very moment. 

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Wall Street

      Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

        - Cree Indian Proverb

Man's Awful Mess

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess." ~Art Buchwald, 1970

Solar the energy of Peace
I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter, quoted in The Observer, 26 August 1973