Knowing workplace conflict is inevitable in companies of all sizes, smart leaders do their best to help teams harness it as a catalyst for growth. As team members navigate diverse perspectives and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anna Shields, organizational conflict and workplace mediation expert. This article is more than 2 years old. Building our ...

Discover practical tools to handle workplace challenges, including a Conflict Resolution course hosted by Duke Learning & Organization Development on Aug. 6 As Director of Academic Services and ...

When you get a group of people together day after day, conflict is inevitable. The employees you so carefully screened during hiring interviews aren't immune, either. They might have had the perfect ...

People generally think of conflict as a negative experience and want to either avoid it or suppress it. But conflict is a fact of life any time people are working together—and it has benefits as well.

Conflict is uncomfortable-there is no way around it. However, research suggests that, contrary to intuition and conventional beliefs, conflict can actually be healthy at work if it is performed in the ...

On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln could have appointed partisans to lead the nation during a looming crisis. Instead, he created a cabinet ...

One of the most common challenges nearly all of us experience in our workplace is conflict. In fact, 85% of workers experience conflict at work on some level and research shows that people spend an ...

Relationship breakdowns at work can lead to higher levels of stress and anxiety. For Stress Awareness Month, Anna Shields ...

Conflict is present in all organizations and takes numerous forms. Here’s how organizations can harness conflict to create better outcomes and healthy conflict management cultures. Organizations must ...