Chapter 5.  Deal with Conflict

Communication is all about bringing people together, but this doesn’t guarantee that they will agree. A degree of conflict is inevitable in the workplace and good communication is what makes the difference between a healthy exchange of ideas and a full-on confrontation. In this section you will learn how to:

  • Encourage and manage healthy conflict

  • Identify communications breakdowns before they happen

  • Resolve conflict with different techniques

  • Resolve individual frictions

  • Manage difficult people

  • Get your team talking again

Rise to the Challenge

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