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5 Signs of Level Headed Leadership That Resolve Conflict Sooner Than Later
When you are in the midst of conflict, how likely are you to stay level headed? Meaning, you maintain a calm composure despite the sensation that your heart is about to beat outside of your chest. You’re able to listen with curiosity instead of blurting out what you really want to say and resist the urge to…
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5 Signs Distraction is Your Conflict Style and What You Can Do About It
When conflict happens on your team, do you tend to crack a joke or find another way to distract from the tension? Many people don’t like conflict and assume it means they’re doing something wrong. In reality, conflict is healthy and allows teams to get more clarity about differences or about the direction to take…
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5 Signs People-Pleasing is Your Conflict Style and Negatively Affecting Your Leadership Credibility
Why do some leaders have more credibility than others? Beyond the “smart” side of leadership vision, strategy, and metrics, a leader’s ability to handle conflict directly and productively is a skill that greatly affects their leadership credibility. It’s the difference between openly dealing with problems in a professional and respectful way and problems going underground…
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5 Signs Controlling Leadership May Be Contributing to Your Employee Turnover
“It’s very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It’s easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.” – Fred Rogers The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to…
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5 Remarks Leaders Often Make to Avoid Conflict and Eventually Blow-Up in Anger
“Feelings are mentionable and manageable” – Mister Fred Rogers In his television show of 895 episodes that ran from 1968 – 2001, Mr. Rogers taught kids about a variety of life skills such as self-value, self-control, curiosity, appreciation of diversity, cooperation, patience, and perseverance. Through meaningful lyrics, scripts, and puppetry, Mr. Rogers presented meaningful experiences that…
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