Eyodwa Workplace Conflict System Design

09/09/2024

Complex political, professional or personal conflicts certainly require skilled professionals to deal with the conflict dynamics, processes, strategies and outcomes, but we can all be better at conflict at an entry level. That is one of the goals we seek to achieve at The Conflict Conversations - no subscriptions, no fees, just a cutting-edge database of modern conflict best practices available to you for study and incorporation into your own professional or personal conflicts.

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The Conflict Conversations

05/08/2024

In my weekly conflict column in this Friday's Herald newspaper we take a look at those outdated workplace disciplinary processes, the harm it causes to all involved, and what businesses can do to upgrade these systems

09/05/2024

Work from home (WFH) debates continue to cause harmful conflicts across several industries and workplaces, without much progress 4 years after the start of the pandemic.

My article, the second in the Cutting Edge of Workplace Conflict series, deals with the debate updated, and a few strategies to effectively deal with this category of conflict

The Covid-19 pandemic introduced employees the world over to the concept and practice of working from home. Some four years after the start of the pandemic certain industries and countries are, rather surprisingly, still struggling with finding a place of comfort for all with the various operational...

16/03/2024

23/02/2024

Some of the recent articles on The Conflict Conversations have dealt with global and national political conflict. Our series "The Cutting Edge of Workplace Conflict" will, in the next few weeks, add a few advanced best practices designed for and applied in the South African workplace

The Conflict Conversations

06/02/2024

Rethinking workplace bullying - managing the true conflict causes, and effective, modern solutions. My article from late last year

Neuroscience shows that, in certain instances, the brain interprets the impact of being devalued, ignored, shamed, yelled at, rejected, or bullied at work in ways that are similar to the experience of physical pain. 

05/02/2024

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

04/02/2024

In doing so, we allow ourselves, just for a moment, to become the magic the parties are seeking, simply because they do not yet understand that the magic is already present and waiting for them. The greatest magic of all is their discovery that the magic is not in the mediators, but within, between, and around them; that each of them can become a magician, an alchemist who discovers how to turn the lead of conflict into the gold of resolution.

Kenneth Cloke

18/01/2024

In my column in the Herald newspaper tomorrow, we look at management and trade union conflict, and ways of effectively improving those harmful and costly spirals

02/08/2021

A developing workplace challenge

In seeing this debate through the lens of a so-called mandatory vaccination workplace policy, with all its inevitable associations of coercion and a loss of our own decision making power, we may be adding to the insecurities, fears and concerns already prevalent, writes conflict resolution expert An...

26/04/2021

A tale of the sexual assault of an employee, an uncaring, out of date and ill-prepared employer, a big damages award against that employer... and an abject lesson in how not to handle workplace conflict

PHIL-ANN ERASMUS                                                                                            Plaintiff

14/03/2021

Let us chair your next disciplinary hearing - experience the benefits of a fully compliant and professional service, using the latest in measurable national and international workplace best practices. Join the growing number of our national clients - references available