How can you manage conflicts with colleagues and superiors in the later stages of your career?

In my position, self-awareness plays a pivotal role: It assists me in discerning whether personal biases or emotions might be coloring my views. Recognizing one's own triggers can pave the way for a more balanced reaction. Moreover, forging and nurturing relationships is at the heart of what I do. This doesn't mean sidestepping disagreements but rather laying down a foundation of trust that facilitates smoother conflict resolutions. Lastly, recognizing when it's time to seek new horizons is crucial. If an environment is perpetually hostile or unsupportive, with frequent and insurmountable disputes, it might be time to evaluate other options. Prioritizing your mental well-being and overall health is paramount.

In my point of view, for those conflicts open to learn the source of this conflict is so crucial. Using the right tools, inventories & mentoring could support the situation to be held in a more rational way. Digging the problem with the moderation of an objective person is beneficial. Asking the right questions in order to gain awareness would be key solution. After awareness, person could find his/her optimum ways of new acting to the topic. Asking “what are going well”, “what should be change” and “what will be tha action plans” are the steps of monitoring this kind of discussions. The next steps will be the tracking of the actions for the development and awareness of the person.

Conflicts are invertible at work, provided we are all born from different mothers we are bound to share different options. Unfortunately, most of us tend to have a strong inclination to our own options and beliefs, such that anyone who shares a different thought from what we are accustomed to, is considered an enemy. My first approach to managing conflict has always been recognizing that my opinions will not always be true and correct. I need to leave room for other people's ideas. Secondly, just because someone shares a different opinion from what I know doesn't make it wrong. Thirdly, I have learned to listen and hold my thoughts whenever I foresee a potential conflict. Lastly, I accept that it is not everyone who can agree with me.

Choose your battles wisely, focus your energy on the most significant conflicts, and seek common ground with those involved. Collaborative problem-solving is often the path to resolution, working together to address the underlying issues. Professionalism should always be maintained, avoiding personal attacks and staying composed. Waiting is helpful to avoid being emotional about the conversation.

Sometimes it’s helpful to bring in a third party as a neutral person to help resolve a conflict, especially if the conflict is over something that triggers your emotions. A neutral third party can provide another viewpoint and also be a supportive person to facilitate the discussion.

Unfortunately some conflicts can never bee resolved. Though unpopular, a major reset is also one strategy worth considering.

Conflict with positive intent is something to strive for, rather than be wary of. Great teams don't all nod and agree with the first person to speak, and those with the most experience should contribute to debate at least as frequently as those with fresh eyes and ideas. Providing you never make it personal, you value yourself and others, are authentic with your opinions and open to change, then get stuck into conflict and help create better outcomes.

Increasing and focusing on developing emotional Intelligence is essential for evaluating conflicts from all sides. Communication should be more about trying to understand the other viewpoints, since we already know our own.

A few ways I have experienced either myself or others to address a situation that is either tense or where it is hard to see the best way to change the dynamics and/or de-escalating the situation, the first step often is to really listen. If the conflict is between other then ask either side to really listen carefully to what is being said, and if they don't understand what is being said, ask clarifying questions until a shared foundation is in place for the issue. The same tactics goes for oneself. Stop the argumentation and listen. Focus on pathways towards shared understanding, or at the very least, mutual respect. It’s also okay to end a conversation if it’s not going anywhere, Let’s agree to disagree for the time being.”

To mitigate conflicts with the superiors or subordinates, it is very much required to ensure that the team is having mutual respect to others and their point of views. To manage a team more effectively, the management will have to conduct more team building excercises and should have good downward communication skills to ensure the newbies as well as experienced ones are sharing their thoughts while working on a project. For the first instance, It will eventually help the team to learn something new as far as the individual contributions are concerned and secondly, it will encourage the team to have better understanding amongst others. As a whole it will have a greater impact on professional conflict management.

Choose your weapon intelligently Maturity is to know that not all fights are to be fought. Certain things will take care of itself and it's wise to wait and watch. However transparency is always the intelligent weapon and the ethical weapon that will take you a long way. Openly communicate in such a way that is sharp and crisp will aim at the right point.

Managing conflict is like navigating experience the key is we're not looking for winners were looking for a win win the minute we realize that this is not a battlefield and this is a decluttering of thought we are all winners