Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Resolving Interpersonal Conflict


Interpersonal conflict are the conflicts within persons usually occur due to different or incompatible education and life backgrounds, ages, cultures, goals and values, as well as behavioral patterns and potential profits. Interpersonal conflict may result in bad relationship and communication barrier in working area and normal lives. Involve in interpersonal conflict, people may suffer bed feelings such as anger, frustration, melancholy and so on, choose to confront the conflict directly and open or ignore it, suppress it, depends on the judgment of the potential benefits outweigh the possible costs.

Reasons For Me

Misunderstand
Incompatible Character
Working Pattern
Incompatible Perspective and Goal
Lack of Cooperative Spirit
Personal Behavior

In conclusion, the reason why interpersonal conflict will happen is that when people discuss or solve problem together, three situation happen:
  • one side's profit is being threatened
  • action and decision from one side if being rejected
  • both sides cannot reach the consensus
Tips to avoid the Interpersonal conflict:
  1. To be honest and accept each other's views, actively listen to each other information expressed when in communication.
  2. To be reasonable when requesting others.
  3. To develop sense of humor, giving moderate praise.
  4. To care about others' situation and happiness initiatively.
  5. To respect the freedom of others to express moderate self-affirmation.
Steps to solve Interpersonal conflict:

  1. Aware of the existence of the conflict 
  2. Confront the conflict with courage and determination 
  3. Both of two sides to communicate and negotiate actively 
  4. Identify the problem and where the conflict is 
  5. Come up with the solution and carry out the procedures 
  6. Implement the solution and review its effectiveness 
Resolving interpersonal conflict is hard work. It requires skill, self-awareness, courage, compassion and patience, no self-limiting, do not communicate with others by the assumption taht "they should know what I mean" .Sometimes we need to test ourselves the way we communicate, change the behavior and respect others, so as to remove the barriers and save the friendship.
Tips on Managing Interpersonal Conflict in the Work Environment
Resolving Interpersonal Conflict
 

Sunday, 29 January 2012

Found some interesting tips about business writing to shared with you guys~

Top 5 Mistakes That Kill a Business Letter