REAL SOLUTIONS FOR WORKPLACE CONFLICT
If you’re dealing with a conflict situation at work, you’re not alone. Most businesses encounter workplace conflicts at one time or another.
Conflicts that occur in the workplace disrupt the organization and can seriously impact morale and people’s ability to focus and get the job done. In the long run, that affects the bottom line.
Conflicts may involve business partners who are always arguing, a manager and an employee who just can’t get along, or a difficult employee whose personality clashes with fellow workers have created serious tension within a department.
At Stanislaw Consulting we specialize in resolving conflict situations in the workplace. With an impartial, outside perspective and many years of experience we solve conflicts between people in companies large and small.
The typical manager spends 25-40% of his or her time dealing with workplace conflicts.
That's one to two days of
every work week.
It’s quite difficult to resolve the conflict yourself. You may be involved in the conflict, either directly or indirectly. It is also hard to be unbiased and to leave office politics out of it.
And you may lack the training and experience to resolve serious conflict between people. Despite your best intentions and efforts, you could actually make things worse.
Impartial, Objective, Experienced
With deep insight into human behavior and organizational dynamics, not only do we understand why people do what they do, we also know what makes an organization run smoothly. We use that knowledge to solve the workplace conflict you're dealing with, making sure that personalities, motivations, emotions, and the needs of the company are all taken into account.
Each workplace conflict is unique in its own way and requires a specific solution. Standard, ‘cookie-cutter’ solutions don’t work at all, or won’t last. Using interviews, assessment tools and other methods, our approach to solving your workplace conflict is based on:
- Letting people tell their story
- Focusing on the real problem, not the symptoms
- Finding the root causes of the conflict
- Determining if the dispute is work related, personal, or both
- Taking an objective, impartial approach, without bias and office politics
- Developing long lasting, real solutions, not quick fixes
We make sure that personalities, motivations, emotions, and the needs of the business are all taken into account.
Results
The solution of the conflict in your company is tailored to the specifics of the situation and the people involved. It can range from a simple solution involving only one or two people to a culture change that impacts the entire organization.
Some possible outcomes of conflict resolution are:
- Improved communication between individuals, teams, managers and employees
- Better mutual understanding of people’s motivations, skills, interests and goals
- More appropriate job assignments based on skills and interests
- Better collaboration between individuals and teams
- Training and/or reassignment of the people involved
- Increased productivity as a result of better communications, goal alignment and fewer distractions
- Ultimately, as a last resort, termination may have to be considered
Don't let a conflict between people linger and destroy company morale and productivity. If you would like to learn more about how Stanislaw Consulting may be able to help, please contact us. We’ll gladly answer your questions.