How To Keep Your Disagreements From Becoming Arguments

How To Keep Your Disagreements From Becoming Arguments

The workplace is typically a veritable hodge-podge of different personality and styles.  This tends to lead to passionate discussions about issues that arise in your business.  Being able to manage disagreements is an important skill to keep discussions productive.  Ed Muzio, CEO of Group Harmonics, talks about this very subject on BNET.com. The first step to managing a disagreement is to define what you actually must agree on.  From there Ed gives 5 Building Blocks of Reality to help you manage the conversation. 1. Information-  This is where you lay out facts.  What are the objective aspects of the issue. 2. Situation- This is the context with which the information

Increase the possibilities for your Team

Increase the possibilities for your Team

As entrepreneurs/leaders, we sometimes fall victim to the curse of knowledge when we are running our teams.  The curse of knowledge being that we understand what’s in our heads and expect everyone to know what we are thinking and what we need.  Communication of specific goals is so critical to our team’s and businesses’ success.   Effective communication is an easy way for to increase the possibilities that exist. In Setting SMART goals ,   http://www.bnet.com/2422-13731_23-262557.html?promo=713&tag=nl.e713 , Ed Muzio, President & CEO of Group Harmonics, talks about the need for setting SMART goals and the increase efficiency while also increasing the morale of the team as well.  Being specific with your