151 Quick Ideas for Delegating and Decision Making

53Don’t Be Afraid of Conflict

As in any organization, when decisions have to be made, there is a high likelihood of conflict, both during the decision-making process and after. However, this likelihood of conflict cannot be a barrier to decision making.

Assignment

Recall decisions that involved organizational or personal conflict. Note those that were used and controlled to provide healthy discussion to the process and those that were allowed to get personal and become detrimental to the process.

In fact, some conflict is healthy for the decision-making process itself. If you are making the decision alone, getting conflicting opinions and recommendations provides you with alternatives and different thinking. That’s useful. If this decision ...