138. For the Conflict Averse with Prina Shah
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RSS Feed In this episode, Prina Shah addresses a common challenge faced by many leaders—conflict aversion. If you find yourself struggling to have difficult conversations, this episode is for you. Prina explains what conflict aversion is and how it negatively impacts your professional reputation and the trust of your team. She provides actionable advice on how to overcome this challenge and emphasizes the importance of addressing issues head-on for the benefit of yourself, your team, and your organizational culture.
Key Topics Covered:
- Understanding Conflict Aversion:
- Definition and implications of conflict aversion.
- The negative impact on professional reputation and team trust.
- The Importance of Addressing Conflict:
- Why avoiding conflict makes situations worse.
- The necessity of advocating for yourself and your team.
- Practical Tips for Leaders:
- How to know when it's time to have a difficult conversation.
- The 48-hour rule for addressing issues that keep you up at night.
- Tools and Resources:
- Introduction to Prina’s script planner and other tools for tough conversations.
- The Benefits of Healthy Conflict:
- How addressing conflict positively impacts you, your team, and your organizational culture.
- Encouragement to embrace and resolve conflicts constructively.
Quotes to Remember:
- "Conflict aversion is your inability to have tough conversations at the right time."
- "Once you lose the trust of your team, it's a steep climb to regain it."
- "If a conversation is on your mind for more than 48 hours, it's time to act."
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Prina (Helping you find GREAT ways to change your workplace) Shah
Hello and welcome to this episode of Ways to Change the Workplace with myself Prina Shah. I love what I do. I'm a global leadership coach, a consultant, a trainer, a keynote speaker, a podcaster. I help you to develop your leaders, your teams, and I help you to optimize your organizational cultures. I'm here to help you find ways to change your workplace. Why? Because we spend more time in our waking day at work than we do with our loved ones. It has to be a good place to be. So in this podcast, you can expect a mix of interviews with amazing thought leaders and then some solo episodes from myself as well. Strap yourselves in. Now that impacts you and your professional reputation really negatively. So the way around it is to actually deal with it to have the conversation, whether it be in relation to uh talking with an individual or talking with someone in relation to advocating for your team. Because once you lose the trust of your team and the respect of your team, it is truly difficult to regain, it's gonna be really tough. You need to be the advocate not only for yourself but for the wider people that you have a duty of care to serve, also. The other tip I have is when you are feeling in a state of ooh difficulty in relation to having that conversation that you need to have, if it is on your mind for at least 48 hours, ruminating, playing over on rewind when you're lying down in bed. You know, if it's there in your mind over 48 hours, you need to do something about it and have a conversation. I have a wonderful script planner, I've got lots of tools. Let me know if you need any help. But for you, I wish that you go forth and have conflict. Conflict is healthy as well. Remember, talking it out and actually addressing issues is a good and positive thing to do, not only for yourself, not only for your team, but for your organizational culture as a whole. So go forth and prosper and have the conversations that you need to have. How good was that episode? If you liked it, be sure to share it with a couple of other people. Also, in the show notes are details about my newsletter. Keep in touch. I send a newsletter out around once a month. It won't be spammy, it will be very practical. And if we're not connected on LinkedIn yet, we must be connect with me on LinkedIn. And on Instagram, I am prina.sha. I will see you somewhere else or in the next episode. Until then, goodbye.