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Spring Clean Away Unresolved Conflict

Spring is about new beginnings. 

Just as people are anxious to plant gardens and flowers outside, they are also anxious to do some serious spring cleaning inside.  It’s time to open up the house, let in the fresh air and sweep out some of the junk we’ve accumulated over time.

We can take these fresh attitudes to the workplace too.

Now is the perfect time to consider fresh ideas you can apply to your assignments, projects, team and even your manager.  Taking time to identify what’s working for you and helping you succeed and choosing to build on it will help you sustain that success. 

Also important is taking note of what habits and behaviors may be holding you back or slowing you down and then letting them go and sweeping them out of “your house.” One of those things to sweep from your house is conflict. To be more specific, behaviors that create and perpetuate unresolved conflict.

Conflict left unresolved tends to worsen over time; draining energy and productivity as anger, hurt feelings, and resentments add up. Unresolved conflict can spill over into areas beyond the disputing employees, impacting teammates, and other colleagues.

The Resolving Disagreements report in imapMyTeam® can help you overcome the insurmountable. It first reveals why resolving a disagreement may be personally hard for you. That part explains the prime reasons you don’t get to the resolution. Part two of the report tells you how to work through the disagreement and how to get help

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Resolving workplace conflict is shown to correlate with reduced stress and anxiety, greater happiness and satisfaction, increased morale and productivity, a greater sense of mental well-being, improved work relationships and even better sleep.  Who wouldn’t want that?!

Choose to use the fresh start of spring to make a clean start with someone that you have been at odds with. Creative conflict is good, lingering conflict is not.  Let the cleaning of your relationships begin.