Are you good at Conflict?

Last week, I was asked to recommend a tool to help team members evaluate how good they are at Conflict. 

 

Assessing one's conflict style and preferences, while seemingly a path to self-awareness, can inadvertently become a sophisticated form of avoidance. The true measure of efficacy in conflict resolution does not lie in neatly categorizing oneself into predefined styles or preferences but in the tangible outcomes achieved. 

 

A more effective approach is to focus on the results of our actions in conflict situations. This entails a rigorous examination of past conflicts not through the lens of our perceived styles but by the concrete impact of our actions in each resolution process. It requires a shift from introspection about personal tendencies to an outward, results-oriented analysis.

 

If you're curious about how you could disagree differently, let's talk.

Anticipating career change in the year of the Dragon?

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Always connect!

I invite you to join me on 29th February to explore how we can make genuine connections at work. What should we aim for when we meet, network, negotiate, interview and in other professional encounters? What makes a relationship professional? Bring your thoughts and questions.

Your toughest interview questions

 

The risk with this interview question is that you tie yourself up in abstract, academic knots or start to sound like a leadership self-help book. It's best to leave the jargon to one side and answer in practical terms. 

 

Consider what you do that generates impactful followership and then illustrate it with a Context-Action-Result retelling of a specific, recent demonstration of your leadership behaviour.

 

Check out my new Interview Preparation course for more: How do I deal with a distracted interviewer?  How can I feel more confident? How do I close the interview assertively? Interviewers keep asking me about fit: how do I demonstrate it?

 

There's still time to send me your toughest interview questions

What just happened?

Are you pulled along by events or pushing ahead to your objectives? You can use Coaching to enforce a pause, switch off your devices and answer that question. Coaching can be a reflective space away from the busy-ness of the day to ‘breathe’ and envision how your days could be different.