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2024-07-27 First time manager

Why is conflict good for everything? Part 3

Now let’s look at what are the ways to avoid conflict. There are five such ways: avoidance, competition mitigation, compromise and cooperation. Only one of the ways can be adopted in a given situation. Therefore, I encourage you to familiarize yourself with these strategies so that you can more easily deal with conflict situations. AVOIDANCE This involves avoiding dealing with the conflict or denying that a conflict exists. The danger of this course of action is that the conflict then

2024-07-24 First time manager

Why is conflict good for everything? Part 2

In the previous post, I described why conflict is a positive thing, not just an event to be avoided. Now let’s look at the stages of conflict. The first stage of interpersonal conflict is the latent stage, when neither party is yet acting to defend its interests, but there is already a cause that could trigger conflict in the future. In a conflict between a superior and a subordinate, this is often too many tasks or an incompetent assignment of

2024-07-20 First time manager

Why is conflict good for everything? Part 1

In relations between a superior and a subordinate, a very common reason for conflict is, on the one hand, the superior’s lack of interpersonal skills and, on the other hand, the subordinate’s inability to listen actively. Prolonged conflict between a superior and a subordinate often even leads to an employee leaving. Conflict is often perceived as a threat to the existing order and order in the company. Noted in its final stage, it usually brings more harm than good. However,

2024-07-13 First time manager

What are operatives, how do you conduct them and why are they important?

Written by: Florian Wierzchowski You probably already know that one of the most important things in a company is good communication. Good communication ensures that you and your employees know what is going on, what problems are occurring in the company, including in other sections, and how this affects the company and its operations. One way to improve day-to-day communication in the company is to hold regular meetings of the top management – board of directors, directors, key managers, independent

2024-06-19 First time manager

How to communicate effectively within a company and why is it important?

Written by: Florian Wierzchowski The exchange of information within a company is crucial to its smooth and efficient operation. Operating a company on the basis of a lack of information, false information or at least outdated information is an unnecessarily risky activity, exposing the company to costs, sometimes even pointless, and all this despite the best intentions of everyone involved. A lack of adequate information is consequently a waste of resources – time, money, materials. And yet, it is necessary