The Conflict Report: how Business Leaders manage conflict in the workplace
The Conflict Report interviews Business Leaders about how to achieve conflict management in the workplace and reveals their unique conflict perspective inside one of the world's toughest industries. The free
Executive Summary
begins a remarkable Report into 5 areas of conflict:
#1. Types of conflict
#2. Successful tactics to manage conflict
#3. Tactics that fail
#4. Disadvantages of conflict
#5. Benefits of conflict
Building and Construction Industry Leaders offer rare insight into their own conflict management styles. After identifying trends, our commentary then explains IP conflict theory and demonstrates conflict resolution techniques and models.
A free 400-word
Executive Summary
of The Conflict Report
precedes 120 pages packed with hundreds of conflict quotes and stories revealing how the industry's smartest players manage conflict in the workplace to achieve significant results on a daily basis.
What's inside the Report?
The Conflict Report shows insights into each Leader's own conflict management strategies and conflict resolution tips. Their thinking challenges existing conflict theory and compelled the development of new models such as the Circles of Conflict.
If you can't resolve conflict you can't move
Danny Elia General Manager Transurban |
The Report begins with our definition of conflict before asking our Business Leaders "what is conflict?" Digging deeper into the sources of conflict at work reveals a staggering 47 types of conflict within their industry - and establishes the 3 tenets of conflict (which apply to most people in business today). Soon we're talking about managing conflict in the workplace - and I've collected dozens of their own practical techniques. Probing for even more conflict management techniques and tactics you'll read prime examples used by their peers. With each story listed for easy reference, it's easy to return to those comments you want.
The smart Builders are the ones that develop ongoing relationships with Contractors and don't try to screw them. But there's plenty that do.
Dave Noonan National Secretary (Construction) Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union |
The 3 most common Tactics That Fail will be easily recognisable to many readers yet how to counter them much more difficult. Our Tactical Response Table exposes these behaviours and explains how to succeed. In doing so many readers will be able to build more constructive relationships.
In the last two sections, Business Leaders cite both the disadvantages of conflict (and how it relates to employee conflict) before listing some surprising benefits of conflict. Rather than avoiding conflict, it makes sense to safely create conflict at work and you'll see why the majority of these
19 Business Leaders
prefer to do so... I'll even show you how to do it. In truth, this research became the catalyst for developing our
Glenn Index of Conflict Health®
program. Revolutionary in scope, it results in increased organisational performance by measuring, tracking and resolving residual conflict. I am proud to present this remarkable report and share my findings with you. If you're interested in resolving workplace conflict, The Conflict Report is a valuable resource for reflection, discussion or immediate application by people of any industry around the world. Purchase and download your copy for only $29.95 now.
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