A practical resource, this book combines tips, checklists, exercises, and stories to outline concrete processes that improve the way leaders, managers, and anyone within an organization responds to conflict. Beginning with a series of questions and self-diagnostics, the authors show you how to: maintain emotional balance in the face of conflict; implement constructive communications techniques; help others deal with conflicts that are causing organization problems; establish norms for handling conflict; use specific approaches for addressing conflict more effectively.
"A must-have guidebook for the new age of global business. This book shows every leader how to turn feelings of fear into feelings of safety, suspicion into trust, and competitiveness into collaboration."
--Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the best-selling book The Leadership Challenge and Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
"Craig Runde and Tim Flanagan use their vast experience to give us Developing Your Conflict Competence. Move beyond negative workplace conflict to positive and constructive outcomes with the simple tools and suggestions in this must-read field guide!"
--Marshall Goldsmith, best-selling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Succession: Are You Ready?, and the upcoming MOJO
"I've read the authors' first two books, Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader and Building Conflict Competent Teams. Their latest book pulls it all together by providing models, examples, and thought-provoking insight. It will be required reading for my senior management team."
--Deborah Jallad, president/chairman, Accredited Surety and Casualty Company, Inc.
Praise for Developing Your Conflict Competence
"A must-have guidebook for the new age of global business. This book shows every leader how to turn feelings of fear into feelings of safety, suspicion into trust, and competitiveness into collaboration."—Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the best-selling book The Leadership Challenge and Dean's Executive Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
"Craig Runde and Tim Flanagan use their vast experience to give us Developing Your Conflict Competence. Move beyond negative workplace conflict to positive and constructive outcomes with the simple tools and suggestions in this must-read field guide!"—Marshall Goldsmith, best-selling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There, Succession: Are You Ready?, and the upcoming MOJO
"Runde and Flanagan have taken their Conflict Competence Model to the next level. Their basic tenets of conflict competence: cool down, slow down, and engage constructively are proven techniques for moving from conflict to collaboration. Whether you are a manager, team leader, trainer, or simply interested in self-improvement, this is a must-have book for enhancing your conflict competence."—Ed Nolan, managing director, Learning and Organizational Development, AAA Auto Club South
"The quintessential guide to leveraging conflict for positive outcomes. Full of practical tools and examples, it is a must-have on your bookshelf."—Erica Bader Sorrell, executive director, Management and Executive Education, Rollins College
"The hands-on tools outlined in Developing Your Conflict Competence were instrumental in developing the ability of our refueling outage leadership team to deal with thousands of competing activities, hundreds of temporary employees, and long work hours—a natural recipe for conflict. As we prepare for future refueling outages, we continue to spread the book's teachings to our permanent staff and supplemental workforce."—Chris Schwarz, site vice president, Palisades Nuclear Power Station Entergy
"I've read the authors' first two books, Becoming a Conflict Competent Leader and Building Conflict Competent Teams. Their latest book pulls it all together by providing models, examples, and thought-provoking insight. It will be required reading for my senior management team."—Deborah Jallad, president/chairman, Accredited Surety and Casualty Company, Inc.
