Keeping the Peace

It was 4:45pm and the requirements review meeting had already gone fifteen minutes beyond the scheduled end time. Joe was becoming agitated. He needed to get out the door at 5:00 pm exactly in order to pick up his daughter from soccer practice. The meeting was not showing any signs of wrapping up. He let [...]

“I disliked working with those people so much that I don’t even know if I hate doing this for a living or it was just those people at THAT place.” – Anonymous
Unfortunately this quote or versions of this quote are not unique to any specific individual. Isn’t that sad? I have heard it on more [...]

You have worked side-by-side with your team for quite some time and the good news is that it has been truly enjoyable. You get along, you work hard together and you laugh hard together. Lucky you, this might even be an example of a high performing team. You assumed it was because you had so [...]

“There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow… “ CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Wow now isn’t that the truth? Here is another excellent opportunity to sharpen your conflict resolution skills.
Some of you accept new ideas right away in fact you live for [...]

The time has come. You have a conflict and it cannot and must not be avoided. Not everyone agrees on the solution and arriving at an approach that moves you and the team forward is absolutely necessary. Now what?
This really does not need to be a big deal. But you do want to set the [...]