Conflict Avoidance is Dishonesty

Lack of open, honest, frank, and courageous communications is the number one cause of problems in most businesses today. • Communication effectiveness falls apart on two levels: poor communications at the organizational level, which is driven by poor communication skills at the interpersonal level. • Managers and leaders often feel they are much be

four common contributions that are often overlooked. 1. Avoiding Until Now

conflict. But if it comes only as a result of people holding back their opinions and honest concerns, then it’s a bad thing. I’d trade that false kind of harmony any day for a team’s willingness to argue effectively about an issue and then walk

One of the most serious blocks to effective organizational communication is the inability of people throughout the company to deal with difficult, stressful, or confrontational conversations.

However, many work teams as well as couples have a list of undiscussables, issues they avoid broaching at all costs in order to preserve a modicum of peace, to preserve the relationship. In reality, the relationship steadily deteriorates for lack of the very conversations they so carefully avoid. It’s difficult to raise the level if the slide has l