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Conflict Leadership - the eight dimensions

#93 Eight Dimensions of Conflict Leadership

I have been talking with my OnConflictPodcast partner Julia Menard about the dimensions of conflict leadership. These are the dimensions of understanding and action that empower one to lead an organization to greater competence in conflict. Below, I outline eight dimensions of conflict leadership as I understand them. There are, no doubt, other ways to slice the apple. 1. Responsibility […]

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#91 Team Health Builds Conflict Competence

Team health means that the building blocks of an effective team are in place. Without team health I find that unproductive conflicts are more likely to arise. All in all, conflict competence will be constrained. Conflict competence refers to how well an organization, team, or individual responds to conflict in all its manifestations.  Below, I

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#7 Empower the Effectiveness of Your Team with Process

  Tasks are what a team does to accomplish its objectives. Process is how the team goes about those tasks. Being an effective team depends as much on team processes as the capabilities of its membership. Process is particularly relevant in team meetings. Shifting to process requires two steps. We have to notice what is

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#5 Track Topics to Derive more Benefit from Team Conflict

  In last week’s blog we visited a team meeting in an imaginary organization. Stephanie had begun to comment on a product concept. Fred cut her off and launched into a brief attack against the quality and timing of her input. Last week’s main point was that such an attack or expression of personal criticism

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