Awareness is the first step to change, and there are signs that organizations and their employees are recognizing the increasing importance of conflict management skills. Conflict is everywhere you ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anna Shields, organizational conflict and workplace mediation expert. Conflict resolution has been on the organizational agenda ...

Workplaces in the United States are remarkably conflict averse. Many people don’t even like to give criticisms to someone else directly, let alone to hash out a disagreement over a path forward or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eight in 10 (81%) employers feel they are doing enough to prevent and manage bullying and harassment at work, but just over a third of employees (36%) who experienced conflict in the past year feel it ...

Even the most loving couples and loyal friends are going to have disagreements and engage in conflict. But conflict does not have to be bad or cause damage. We can love and value someone and still ...