Ten Days to a Happier, Successful Career and Life: Day Eight: Practice Personal Courage in Conflict

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Ten Days to a Happier, Successful Career and Life Day Eight: Practice Personal Courage in Conflict From Susan M. Heathfield, your Guide to Human Resources Peter Block, author, organization development consultant, and speaker made significant points for me in his book, The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work (compare prices). He asked about how any of us can expect to accomplish our purpose, mission, and goals if we are unwilling to practice positive political skills at work. By practicing positive politics, Block says we elicit help from others to remove roadblocks, obtain resources, reinforce our personal growth and development, and influence the direction of our work group or company. And, sometimes, Block believes, we need to participate in conflict to obtain what is needed. For many of us, conflict is the big scary. In fact, one of the most frequent questions asked of me as a consultant is how to avoid conflict in the work place. This is the wrong question. The right question is how can you learn to participate in necessary conflict professionally and comfortably. With increasing comfort, you are willing and able to participate more frequently in conflict to support the accomplishment of your goals. Continue on the Ten Days to a Happier, More Successful Career and Life journey. Day Eight Practice Personal Courage to Participate in Conflict Consequently, with increasing willingness and comfort about participating in conflict, you increase the probability that you will accomplish your work and personal goals. This email is written by: Susan M. Heathfield Human Resources Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Ten Days to a Happier, Successful Career and Life' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement