Conflict in the Workplace Archives - Page 10 of 23

December 28, 2014 By Joyce Weiss Leave a Comment

Are You The Family’s Truth Teller?

Clients and friends ask me how I can be as bold as I am with some of the examples that I share with them. I realized years ago that most people don’t know how to resolve conflict in the workplace or home. I see people letting things fester because they don’t have the skills or fear what will happen if they open up their mouth! It has taken me YEARS of practice, making mistakes, making more mistakes, taking classes, reading, and gaining the respect by others and mainly for myself.

At times my family asks me why I need to be the family’s truth teller. I tell them what Forrest Gump said when someone asked him what he was going to be, “Aren’t I going to be me?” Believe me when I tell you that I’m not ALWAYS the bold one. There are times when I actually hold back because the timing is not the best, or I may be tired and not full of my creative juices for that moment. BUT, when I see things that need to be said, in a positive way, you better believe that I point these things out to clients, friends and family. It is not always easy but I get a great night’s sleep because I don’t constantly think about unresolved issues.

This post contains quotes from people who you will recognize about this very topic. I do hope that they will give your the courage to either speak up or hold back if you are one of the aggressive communicators. 🙂 … [Continue reading]

November 16, 2014 By Joyce Weiss Leave a Comment

Do You Have An Ambassador at Work?

Does this sound familiar?
You have a very successful training. The trainer leaves and your team is back to the status quo and nothing has changed. If so this article is perfect for you. If not I can’t wait to find out what you do to keep the momentum going.

Do you have an advocate for your projects at work?

Would you like to find people who believe in what you do?

Do you want to make a difference?

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November 9, 2014 By Joyce Weiss Leave a Comment

Is Change Good or Bad? It’s Your Choice!

Do you want to thrive during all the changes at work?
Have you ever wanted to feel more empowered?
Do you wish you could put yourself in the driver’s seat?

If you answered yes to any of these questions you’ll be glad that you’re reading this post.
If not, read it anyway because I will give you ideas that you can share with your team if they are under stress about changes at work. This post will help reduce your stress and conflict in the workplace and give you some strategies on how you can look for opportunities in change.… [Continue reading]

October 12, 2014 By Joyce Weiss Leave a Comment

Breaking News! Dysfunctional Cultures Never Work

How many times do we have to see the same dysfunctional scenes play out about governmental agencies or corporate teams when transparency or trust don’t exist? Reducing conflict in the workplace is important in all sizes of organizations. The following are culture busters that guarantee a culture to crash:

Mistakes are hidden
People are afraid to speak up
Confusion on who to trust or even talk to
Morale is at a all time low
Lack of transparent leaders
etc, etc

We saw this when the leaders of the Secret Service tried covering up for the numerous blunders concerning the President of the United States. … [Continue reading]

September 7, 2014 By Joyce Weiss Leave a Comment

It Doesn’t Take A Wrecking Ball to Knock Down Social Barriers

Do you have bullies harassing minorities at work?

Is there a lot of We versus They going on?

Are people telling jokes that make others feel uncomfortable?

Are some of your team members silent at meetings and you don’t know why?

I find that many leaders don’t think that they have diversity issues. People don’t usually bring up uncomfortable issues about gender, race, culture, generations, sexual orientation, religion, mentally or physically challenged. Start listening for jokes that insult diversity issues or bullying from the tough guy or gal. I tell my clients, I can’t change you if you are prejudiced. I can strongly suggest that you keep that prejudice at home in order to work as a team. Believe me when I say that this business conflict resolution consultant does what I can to open up everyone’s minds. It does not always work, but I sure do my best! The conversations are never dull during these trainings!

My logo says it all: When you have respect, you can resolve issues and get positive results.

My last post included a diversity exercise for you to use at future meetings to take down diversity barriers. Thanks to those of you who sent me private emails sharing
your diversity issues. This post will give you ideas to reduce conflict in the workplace…to increase respect.

If you use only a few of these suggestions you will realize that social barriers are about as thick as a piece of paper!

Click here for my post on the powerful diversity exercise that I use in my trainings.

Making Diversity Work for You

1. Hold meetings in locations that are accessible.
2. Support continuing education on diversity awareness.
3. Learn about others’ history, customs, etc.
4. Share with people who are different from you.
5. Acknowledge your own prejudices.
6. Interrupt discriminatory actions, conversations, jokes, etc., that you observe.
7. Speak out against discrimination.
8. Educate each other about differences and commonalities.
9. Encourage and support pursuit of new horizons.
10. Accept persons based on their individual value.
11. Seek support from others.
12. Accept differing views, ideas, perspectives and feelings of people.
13. Show interest in the lives of others.
14. Speak out when you hear lies being told about people who are targeted for discrimination.
15. Don’t automatically apply stereotypes to people who are unfamiliar to you.

I will include more strategies to use to remove more of your diversity issues in future posts. Please send me conflicts that your experience on your team concerning diversity challenges. We can start a very interesting dialogue!

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Until next time,

This is Joyce Weiss, Business Conflict Resolution Consultant
I help people become top level leaders who get GREAT results.
How do I do this?
I teach them to tackle the tough conversations with bullies and negative people to build employee engagement, accountability, and rock star performance…
The Result? My clients get a better night’s sleep!

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Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!