Forum – Conflict Management

For team leaders it is important to be aware that there are as many truths in a conflict as there are people involved. Hear all sides means: take the concerns of each party seriously by way of being on neither side and being on both sides.

Empowering team members to work out conflicts among themselves is one of your options to handle conflicts. However, it needs some thoughts …

Leadership conflict competencies have been widely discussed in the last years. If you google “leadership conflict management skills” you receive 86’800’000 results. One can choose between “The 6 most important, …. 10 tips for leaders, ……” Sometimes it’s 8 skills, sometimes 18. Each of these trying to describe the most important competencies leaders need to have. Lists…

Constructive conflict resolution is hard work. When we start on this challenging path, we’ll need a set of “basic equipment” to succeed …

The first and most important leadership conflict management skill is to be willing to handle conflicts. To adopt that attitude is an important step towards leadership conflict competency. Being willing is more than accepting the necessity to handle conflictual situations in your team or with your peers. It means to develop the appropriate mindset. And…

managing conflicts as a leader not only takes communication skills, but the ability to work both on the system and within the system.

In our work with leaders in conflict management trainings the participants tell us different reasons why dealing with conflicts within their sphere of responsibility is difficult. 🙄 One of them is their personal disinclination to conflicts and to deal with tensions. Some feel that from early age on they avoided difficulties, some describe having been…

Conflicts unfold strong dynamics. Knowing and being aware of the different phenomena related to conflicts enables us to step back.