Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anna Shields, organizational conflict and workplace mediation expert. A more holistic approach to conflict management is to work ...

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 ...

One of the more promising recent workforce developments is that teams are increasingly composed of people from all walks of life. They bring different ideas, which most of us consider a good thing ...

My last post focused on specific strategies to resolve workplace conflict. But let's be honest. Most of us don’t relish the idea of managing conflict, whether that occurs at work or in our personal ...

Over the past two decades, companies have made strides to create a supportive workplace for all. Despite advancements in ...

In my latest book, Experiential Intelligence (Matt Holt, 2023), I explore how personal and professional experiences shape behavior and team dynamics. The experiences your startup team goes ...

About 49% of manager candidates lack effective conflict management skills, while only 12% demonstrate high proficiency with handling conflict at work, according to a Sept. 24 report from DDI, a global ...

In addition to the thoughts you’re having during a conflict, your body is having a physical experience of the conflict as well. This is one of the reasons that although you think you have resolved a ...

Two former Harvard faculty--one an internationally-recognized negotiator and conflict management expert from Harvard Law, the other a leading behavioral neurologist and cutting-edge scientist from ...

In the fire service, clarity is paramount as it promotes safety. The primary mission is to protect lives and property. Clear expectations regarding safety protocols and procedures are the bedrock upon ...

Merge conflict management has emerged as a critical element in modern software development, where collaborative coding demands the integration of numerous, concurrently developed code contributions.

The United States has engaged in 17 nation-building efforts since 1900, with only four resulting in established democracies—a 24% success rate if democracy establishment is the metric (Figure 1). How ...