Digital devices like Smartphones can be a boon if you have a teen/daycare/babysitter you need to stay in touch with, or colleagues who you need to touch base briefly with about something. But apart from specific times and occasions, staying…
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Appreciating Conflict
All meaningful relationships, whether at work or at home, have conflicts. The conflicts may be ongoing; they may come in short bursts; they may be separated by long interludes of harmony; but if those connections are to continue to be…
Managing Tribe-based Conflict
At its core, a tribe is held together by the need for safety and well-being. Individually, each member has the same need… it’s what draws us to this or that group. Adolescents feel the pull most keenly, for they are…
Managing Identity-based Conflict
Success. Failure. Triumph. Defeat. Good days. Bad days. Compliments. Insults. All of these (and more) can trigger our identity - our sense of who we are - and before we know it, we can find ourselves in an identity-based conflict;…
Resolving Emotional Conflicts
Emotional conflicts. Wouldn’t life be easier without them? Yes, probably. But it would also be less real. After all, we are people, not machines. Time and again we at Common Outlook remind clients (and ourselves) that any organization is nothing…
Three Common Workplace Conflicts
Conflict is a word that often makes people uncomfortable. Indeed, many would agree with the assertion: “Conflict is bad”. Our view is different. We say that conflict is not inherently good or bad; it just “is”. Conflict is a normal…
Choose a Leadership Expert
This month, we feature – ever so briefly – five top leadership experts in the English-speaking world. Each holds their own against the others in spite of very different methodologies and philosophies. In other words, there’s no right or wrong…
Leading Your Team into Self-Regulation
It’s not easy for any of us to see ourselves… to see a lack of self-regulation… to see the behaviours and processes that work against us, and against a team. If you’re a leader, however, you’re in a position… indeed,…
How to Regulate Yourself
Although you will find various definitions explaining what self-regulation means, for our purposes we will define it simply to mean using forethought before diving into a project or endeavour, and after-thought as it takes shape. The good news is that…
Negotiating Conflicting Work Styles
We all run into situations where a person we have to work with makes us crazy (and we’ve all done it to others – perish the thought!). In this month’s article, we are examining four common task-styles, based on the…