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Conflict Cultures

Do you have conflict in your workplace? Do you have 2 or more people working there? Then you have conflict. Turn conflict into a competitive advantage by making it work for you instead of against you.

Creating Collaborative Conflict Culture I: What's in Your Culture? Everyone brings their favorite negotiation style to the workplace, and resorts to that style in times of conflict. Conflict styles create conflict cultures, which in turn influence the use of and mix of individual conflict styles. Learn about conflict styles and cultures and how to turn conflict into teambuilding!

Creating Collaborative Conflict Culture II: Shifting Styles in Real Time Do you have a bunch of conflict Avoider styles on your team? Or a Competitor who just loves to win a good fight? No matter how much conflict training and teambuilding you invest in, people inevitably resort to old habits under stress. Learn the tips and tricks for moving those old style habits into a productive, collaborative method of conflict resolution.

Take the Negotiation Styles Assessment to determine what your conflict style is! Read about the different styles and their pro's and con's in Negotation Styles: Uses and Limitations.

Communication

Existentialist Communication
Learn the downfall of verbal communication. Once you understand that communication only exists in message pairs, you will solve the majority of your communication frustrations.

Two Secrets of Communication
Learn just two secrets that will improve your ability to verbally communicate a message to workers, customers, and peers
and make it stick the way you meant it.

Why Don't They READ It?!
Have you ever provided information to someone at work, information they requested, that you worked hard to compile, only to realize that they apparently never read it? Learn five secrets that will make people read it, actually READ it!