Background

Since the days of my management education in graduate school (many many years ago), more so after I had a class on Business Ethics, I started to think about business and personal mangement from a different perspective. While staying focussed on the goals, it is very important to have one very fundamental value as the basis to drive the day to day approach to management. If this fundamental value is the same for personal and professional management, one's life becomes very consistent. This fundamental value in my opinion is positive energy. In a world where it is easy to get sucked into very simple negative habits like "talking behind someone" to very disastrous negative engagements like terrorism, it is important to realize that it is very possible to learn and master the skills to stay positive and reap success. This blog is my small effort to impart these techniques to acquire, sustain and weave in positive approaches into our lives. I will focus more on professional management techniques for the corporate world, however, I will also discuss personal management techniques to break up the monotony.


Sunday, April 03, 2011

Positive conflict resolution

As leaders, we face conflicts among members of our group; between members of our group and members of other groups; or between us and others. It is relatively easier to resolve conflicts where we are not a party - because we can provide the objective view of an outsider in those conflicts. When we are involved, we need to step back, and separate us from the conflict to see it objectively. We must list out the facts and write out the solutions for each. Solutions must focus heavily on what we can do vs. what others can do. Present these solutions to the parties involved and get consensus on the direction. A lot of times, we will be able to influence others to volunteer their actions by focusing on ours. For this, it is very important to focus on what to do and never express emotions.

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