Description
Here is a completely updated edition of the best-selling Resolving Conflicts at Work. This definitive and comprehensive work provides a handy guide for resolving conflicts, miscommunications, and misunderstandings at work and outlines the authors’ eight strategies that show how the inevitable disputes and divisions in the workplace actually provide an opportunity for greater creativity, productivity, enhanced morale, and personal growth. This new edition includes current case studies that put the focus on leadership, management, and how organizations can design systems to change a culture of avoidance into a culture of creative conflict. The result is a more practical book for today’s companies and the people who work in them.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Conflict: A Leaders Challenge (Warren Bennis).
Preface.
Introduction: Eight Strategies to Move from Impasse to Transformation.
Strategy One: Change the Culture and Context of Conflict.
Strategy Two: Listen Actively, Empathetically, and Responsively.
Strategy Three: Acknowledge and Integrate Emotions to Solve Problems.
Strategy Four: Search Beneath the Surface for Hidden Meaning.
Strategy Five: Separate What Matters from What Gets in the Way.
Strategy Six: Stop Rewarding and Learn from Difficult Behaviors.
Strategy Seven: Solve Problems Creatively, Plan Strategically, and Negotiate Collaboratively.
Strategy Eight: Explore Resistance, Mediate, and Design Systems for Prevention and Resolution.
About the Authors.
Index.
