by Productive Conflict | Leadership, Organizational Conflict
You can feel it immediately. The tension is palpable, but no one is saying anything about it. Maybe it’s been building for months. A slow accumulation of unspoken grievances, competing priorities, and bruised egos. Maybe it erupted suddenly. Either way, the conflict...
by Productive Conflict | Leadership, Organizational Conflict
You know the feeling. Your inbox is a crime scene. The meeting meant to resolve things made everything worse. Two senior people who should be working together have chosen sides, and somehow you’re caught in the middle. The timeline is impossible, the stakes are...
by Productive Conflict | Leadership, Organizational Conflict
Workplace conflicts turn dirty when fairness breaks down. In dirty fights, people attempt to rewrite history, question your competence, air public dramas, and blame others for failed projects. For those trying to stay professional under the pressure of a dirty fight,...
by Productive Conflict | Anger, Leadership, Organizational Conflict, Performance Issues, Relationships
You’re in the executive team meeting. Your colleague Geri interrupts you again, mid-sentence, to pitch her version of the project timeline. Heat rises in your chest. Your jaw clenches. Before you know it, you’ve dismissed her entire proposal with a curt...
by Productive Conflict | Leadership, Organizational Conflict, Relationships
Disagreement quickly escalates to an existential threat. A neighbour’s political button feels like an assault on our values. A colleague’s way of life challenges our way of being. Religious practices that differ from our own appear like an affront to our community...
by Productive Conflict | Leadership, Organizational Conflict
Conflict as Patterns Conflict is not a hurdle to be overcome, but a pattern to be understood; it is through the examination of these patterns that we unlock the truly creative potential of our challenges. We see conflict in various facets of our lives, from personal...
