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How to Resolve Disagreement in the Workplace

Disagreement happens; even on the most cohesive teams. While healthy disagreement often helps a team move forward, failure to effectively address and resolve disagreement is a real threat to the ability of the team to be successful.

The consequences of unresolved disagreement are often lack of trust, hurt feelings, outbursts of anger, little focus and ultimately the inability to work together. It can create tension, become counter-productive and destroy teams.

Tension created by conflict and disagreement is not always negative.  It’s sometimes neutral or even positive. Just because two people disagree doesn’t mean their disagreement is negative or poisonous; it can simply be a difference of opinion. However, left unaddressed and allowed to fester and grow, that neutral tension can become negative and possibly harmful.

Understanding that the process of resolving disagreement is not a contest to be won or lost is an important first step in learning to turn negative conflict into positive tension.  This will help you and others to be more effective as you navigate those areas of disagreement.

imapMyTeam will guide you to the steps you can take to quickly and effectively resolve disagreements.

In the center pane pull down menu of www.imapmyteam.com ® there is a report titled: Resolving Disagreements. This report helps you understand why working through disagreement can be so difficult and provides some helpful suggestions.

Run this report on yourself and consider one or two things you can do differently to manage the tension of conflict before it becomes counter-productive to winning as a team