From the course: How to Proactively Manage Conflict as an Employee
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How to avoid an endless struggle
From the course: How to Proactively Manage Conflict as an Employee
How to avoid an endless struggle
- Do you fight the same battles over and over again? When you keep hittin' roadblocks, it's easy to personalize the conflict and blame other people. But sometimes the struggle is there because your company, its culture, or the processes behind your job are broken. It takes fresh thinking and a willingness to go deep to overcome conflict and to get back to work. Want to beat the endless struggle at work? I'm going to teach you the pre-mortem. The pre-mortem is a simple exercise, where you imagine how something will fail in the future and work backwards to address those individual points of failure before you start. Let me get super specific. Before you do anything that is a struggle, talk to your co-worker about a project, design a new website, ask your boss for a raise, I want you to imagine how it will fail. Not how might it fail. Not how could it fail. But how it will fail. Set a timer for two minutes, flash…
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