In a recent small survey I did on Linked In the results showed that 70% of companies either did not want to address conflict’s connection to wellness or did not want to spend money on learning how to manage it. Another standout number was that the other 30% didn’t know there were low-hanging fruit solutions both with respect to increasing wellness and professional conflict management competencies. That number was higher than I thought. We can help you with that if you are in that camp...remember a past email blast with the conflict calculator? Did you fill it out?
It was also striking that 100% of the group identified that organizations understand it is connected to wellness and revenue. How much conflict does one individual, small group, team or organization need to experience before deciding to deal with the problem? How much dancing around throwing money in the fireplace while ‘boiling the frog’ (a good story to learn from) needs to happen? If we simplify we can rectify...then we are managing and preventing at the same time, all the while resolving with long term solutions as needed. People were not born with conflict management skills and collaboration, communication and connection is needed now more than ever. “Corporate Healing” is real.
If you are a leader who has not spent significant time understanding how to make conflict a part of your “transformative” legacy than imagine how many professionals have not either. It is impossible to be the best version of ourselves if we don’t understand where these skills come in. The “dirty” word conflict is actually a code word that gets in our way of taking action. Our long term memory and our emotional center exist in the same part of the brain.
Someone hears the word “conflict” and then immediately goes through and emotional history of personal conflict and says...”I want no part of it.”
But you have no choice, it will find you in a different form. Have you ever needed to:
· Have a discussion where you knew you would disagree?
· Had to deliver bad news?
· Had to give a negative update at a meeting?
· Tell someone no
· Give or receive a performance review
· Work your way through a conversation that turned sour?
· Diagnose the problems on a team or in a relationship?
· Have you ever needed to negotiate for a car, break up with a partner or told a potential suitor you were not interested?
Simplify and Rectify. These are all conflicts of different nature and can be solved with further understanding and one, yes only one, tool. Talk to me about how easy this is to get started and I will tell you how to get it done and the thousands to millions of dollars you are going to save.
Call to Action: Improve the quality of your personal and professional conflict management skills while helping to build and promote wellness within your teams...while increasing revenue.
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