Archive for January, 2009

Problem: Conflict in Workplace – Result: People Quit

Did you know that 65% of voluntary terminations are the result of unresolved workplace conflict? Not the sort of workplace conflict that turns nice people into bar brawlers or food fight participants in the company cafeteria or neighborhood diner.
I’m talking about “double secret” conflict – the most damaging kind.
Why do I call it “double secret” [...]

Workplace Conflict Resolution Begins With Identification of Unproductive Behavior

When you think of conflict – what do you think of first, the cause or the effects? When you think about workplace conflict – what comes to your mind first – discomfort, embarrassment, tears, agitation, & frustration, or money being vacuumed right off your organization’s bottom line?
When you think of workplace conflict resolution – what’s [...]

Global Conflict – Can It Be Resolved Using Workplace Conflict Resolution Strategies?

Workplace Conflict Resolution Required When Differences Transform Into Conflict
Here we are in the 21st. Century, a supposedly enlightened race who accept one another’s differences and uniqueness – biological, temperamental, ethnic, etc. with open arms.
And yet we see that around the world these very differences – those things about each of us that create such [...]