[DISC Tool] How do you handle conflict?

Let’s face it…most of us were never taught how to handle conflict well. So given our DISC style, we may confront, put up with or avoid conflict altogether. Find out how you handle naturally handle conflict in this article…

You can see from these tendencies that we may not know how to handle conflict in a constructive way. It seems like we either avoid it or when we try to handle it, we handle it badly.

Why is this? The easy answer is that we were never taught how to deal with conflict in a healthy way.

Most of us learned from our parents’ example that you either yelled or you shut down in the face of confrontation. It even goes deeper if you were taught the scriptural admonition to “turn the other cheek.”

So how can we overcome our natural tendency of being too passive or too aggressive when it comes to dealing with conflict? (Not sure of your natural tendency? Take the self-assessment in the next article.)

~The DISC Wizard

How to Communicate with a Dominant Person When They Are Angry

How to Communicate with a Dominant Person When They Are Angry

Anyone who has ever worked or lived with a High Dominant person knows they want results. Quickly. They’re direct, fast, decisive, impatient with delays, vague answers, and long explanations. And when stress is high, that intensity can come across as anger (although...

TriMetrix Tales: When Experts Ignore Their Own Hiring Benchmark

TriMetrix Tales: When Experts Ignore Their Own Hiring Benchmark

There’s an old line about the cobbler’s children having no shoes. I’ve always liked it because it’s a good reminder and annoyingly true. The people who know better are not, in fact, immune to doing worse. This TriMetrix Tale is one of those stories. We were hiring for...

TriMetrix Tales: The Performance Review That Saved a Great Employee

TriMetrix Tales: The Performance Review That Saved a Great Employee

A long-time client reached out with that familiar, pre-review dread — the feeling leaders get when they know the conversation might drift into territory they can’t budget for, can’t justify, and can’t wiggle out of without disappointing someone important. The client...