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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 – [...]

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Workplace Conflict, is it Destructive or Creative?

Whenever you work with people, conflict is inevitable. The tension created by daily conflict either results in wasted time, decreased productivity, and poor decisions or the sort of internal competition that pushes each individual to do their best, if for no other reason that convince their coworkers that they can do it. This inevitable conflict [...]

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It’s Not The Conflict You Know About That’s Killing Your Profits

As business owners we are often trapped by the unintended results of untested assumptions. After all we’ve been in business a while, maybe a long while, and we’ve been successful so far. Often that only means we’ve guessed right about trends, our competitors, what products to stock etc. – more often than we’ve been wrong. [...]

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Conflict in Workplace? How Much is Workplace Costing Your Organization

Conflict in the workplace, assuming it is an actual pitched battle between employees. Fist fights on the loading dock for instance, or between supervisors who start malicious rumors about one another, is easy to see. Even so the dollar cost of such obvious conflict is rarely measured. Other, much more subtle forms of conflict in [...]

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Problem: Conflict in Workplace – Result: People Quit

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? [...]

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How Much is Workplace Conflict Costing Your Small Business Right Now, Even A General Idea?

Conflict in the workplace, especially if it’s obvious, like fist fights in the company factory or maybe even non-violent conflict such as when managers or coworkers start hateful rumors about one another is viewed for what it is, workplace conflict. were you aware that even as workplace conflict contains a price tag, even the actual [...]

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