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Dealing with confrontations in the workplace

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One of the things that you are going to have to face in any kind of workplace is confrontation. If you work with other people confrontation is going to be inevitable, which means that they are going to be pretty much impossible to avoid. But what you might not be thinking about is that there are numerous kinds of confrontations in the workplace that you can encounter and many times you can deal with them in the same way. Confrontations are basically when two employees come face to face to deal with a problem. But the thing is if you are a manager you are probably going to be dealing with more confrontations then the regular employees because you are going to have to deal with any management issues and that includes correcting the employees.

Here are some tips to dealing with confrontations in the workplace.

Tip one:
If you have to talk with employees the first thing that you are going to want to do is try to get them to change their perspective on the talk. You don't want the employees to see the talk as a confrontation because of the fact that confrontations are usually thought about in a negative context. So the first thing that you are going to want to do is to tell your employees about the good things that you see in them and the positive things that you see about how they do their job and anything that you respect about them. And when talking to your employees let them know that you are only confronting them so that you can help them perform their jobs to the best of their ability.

Tip two:
Another thing that you are going to need to do to help deal with confrontation is to change your own mind frame. To many times people tend to think of confrontations as a bad thing so when people have to confront others at work the problem just goes downhill because everybody is in a negative mind frame. In order to change your mind frame you are going to have to think of confrontations as something positive rather than something negative. And the best thing is that confrontations can be positive because all you are trying to do is help people do better with their job duties and job performance.

Tip three:
You are also going to need to be willing to listen to your employees once you have confronted them on a certain issue because you need to always remember that you can still benefit and learn from your employees, just like the can benefit and learn from you. But you need to be open to listening to how they feel and listen to what kind of reasons they may have, if they have one, for how they do things. By listening and working together you can develop a better plan that you both agree on.

Tip four:
Sometimes regardless of how well you try and handle confrontation there is going to be employees that you have to confront who are not going to be very nice about the matter or very cooperative. These people are just going to be negative about the entire issue and will not take any of your advice. The only thing that you can do in that case is to give the employee the option to do things your way or to leave the company. And one thing that you are going to need to be prepared for is that there are going to be employees who choose to leave rather than stay, but that isn't anything you can help and it has no reflection on your management skills.

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