If you ignore conflict it doesn’t go away. Discover how introvert tendencies can manage conflict effectively. How about a magic wand to make workplace conflict, or even life conflict, go away? Okay, so that’s an exaggeration. But you can wave your introvert skills in a variety of ways to handle different kinds of conflict, and better manage your energy depletion from the stress of it all. With our introvert strengths of listening more, thinking things through, and talking after thinking you can put away that axe to grind. Sign up now with other introverts who want to know more about how to have their voice heard in every day business situations. https://patriciaweber.leadpages.net/ctifirsttoknow/

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Patricia Weber
Introverts can put down the axe to grind for
conflict management
Learning to deal with conflict is a continuing
process for me. In most situations I take on
the conflict head on, instead of ignoring it. It
may be because I am an introvert, Italian, a
combination or just slow learning.
In all my years in sales and sales
management, there was enough axe grinding
among co-workers to kill a forest.
It turns out, several studies point to
manager’s spending a good deal of time
managing conflict. Like about 42% of their
time.
Can you hear more trees falling?
There are many causes for workplace conflict occurring naturally from different department
goals and job roles. When you mix in a person’s different needs, values and styles, is it
any mystery why introverts and extroverts may have times they just cannot get along?
Not all conflict is worth confronting. Even though it’s not necessarily an easy decision to
make, try a few questions if you are not certain about confronting or walking away. Here
are just a couple when you have a conflict:
If you look back at a particular aggravating situation in a month, or a year, will it
matter? If you can say it won’t matter, then expending the time and energy to
resolve it may not be worth it.
Are there other people who might be hurt in some way if you don’t deal with the
situation? If co-workers, family or friends are involved, then maybe you have to
wave the introvert strengths into the situation and step up to handling things.
One common type of workplace conflict happens when people of different styles are

2. tasked with completing a job – together. As introverts if we are matched with an extrovert
you might anticipate some issues like, we are usually most productive working in solitary.
The extrovert might want to include even more people in the project.
Naturally, both people are going to have some emotions if there is conflict: they may feel
stress, frustration, even resentment. This could mean, the best approach to most effective
conflict resolution, is to balance our intellect with our emotional intelligence, often referred
to as EQ.
Some statistics conclude that 85% of dismissals in the U.S. are from personality conflicts.
Even if these are less than substantiated, what is substantiated is the amount of time we
spend in the workplace dealing with conflict: 2 hour a week for employees and 42% of
management time.
Recognizing both the intellectual and emotional side of the problem are key to successful
resolution.
While there is no magic wand to dissolve the inevitable workplace conflict, with our
introvert strengths of listening more, thinking things through, and talking after thinking, we
can put away that axe to grind.
As you assess a particular situation, because as an introvert we cannot help but go into
analyze mode, don’t get stuck in the muck. Decide if the return on your time and energy
investment is worth it.
If you do move forward, have some options available like collaborating, accommodating,
even ignoring, to choose when and how to confront the situation.
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