{"id":24370,"date":"2019-01-22T14:14:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/?p=24370"},"modified":"2019-05-16T14:07:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T19:07:08","slug":"how-to-fix-employee-conflicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2019\/01\/how-to-fix-employee-conflicts\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Fix Employee Conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<h3 class=\"\">If you have been in leadership for any length of time, you have had to deal with employee conflicts amongst your team.&nbsp; Some of the issues are trivial, others substantial, but what do you do to fix these problems?&nbsp;<\/h3>\n<p class=\"\">The source of most conflict in the workplace flows from one specific area &#8211; Motivations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We assess motivations as part of our tools in helping companies hire and evaluate talent.&nbsp; Motivations are an interesting aspect of our psyches.&nbsp; They are deeply seated and have the power to drive behaviors, decision-making, and more.&nbsp; The difficulty of motivations is that they are difficult to determine from simply interacting with someone.&nbsp; Maybe if you work with someone for a handful of years you could approximate their motivational pattern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">All of us have 6 common motivators of different intensities &#8211; you can <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/motivations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">learn about them here<\/a>.&nbsp; The conflict in the workplace occurs when you have two people with opposite patterns.&nbsp; For instance, if you have a high Theoretical on your team, they will always be looking for new ways of doing things.&nbsp; Conversely, if you have a high Traditional on that same team, the Traditional is going to push back against changing the status quo.&nbsp; At some point, there is a good chance they will be involved in a decision where each of them will come at a solution from completely different viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This contradictory viewpoint is where the conflict materializes. It often spills out to statements about changing things for no apparent reason, or you fight all forms of change.&nbsp; There are others, but you see where this conflict takes root and now the conflict grows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The solution is for each of them to know the other&#8217;s motivational pattern.&nbsp; Once elucidated, each person understands the basis of the other&#8217;s decision making.&nbsp; Now each person can appreciate the starting point of the other person&#8217;s perspective without having the decision process devolve into an argumentative state.&nbsp; That appreciation often leads to successful, thoughtful decisions which have more buy-in from the different people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong><a class=\"btn btn-pill btn-color-5 btn-glow\" style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/contact-us\/\">Contact Us To Learn More About Motivation Assessments<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been in leadership for any length of time, you have had to deal with employee conflicts amongst your team.&nbsp; Some of the issues are trivial, others substantial, but what do you do to fix these problems?&nbsp; The source of most conflict in the workplace flows from one specific area &#8211; Motivations. We assess motivations as part of our tools in helping companies hire and evaluate talent.&nbsp; Motivations are an interesting aspect of our psyches.&nbsp; They are deeply seated and have the power to drive behaviors, decision-making, and more.&nbsp; The difficulty of motivations is that they are difficult to determine from simply interacting with someone.&nbsp; Maybe if you&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2019\/01\/how-to-fix-employee-conflicts\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[96,903,1315],"class_list":["post-24370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-assessing","category-communication","tag-assessment","tag-communicating","tag-motivations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-6l4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2015,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/05\/do-values-change-in-a-recession\/","url_meta":{"origin":24370,"position":0},"title":"Do Values Change In A Recession?","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"That is a tough question since I think values are primarily hardwired into each of us.\u00a0 We assess this trait in sales candidates \u2013 call them motivations.\u00a0 Each person tends to have two of these motivators that drives their behaviors (some people have 3 primary motivators). We have assessed salespeople\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Assessing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Assessing","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/assessing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":71,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/incentives-vs-motivation\/","url_meta":{"origin":24370,"position":1},"title":"Incentives vs. Motivation","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 1, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Rewarding salespeople is a tricky endeavor. Yes, most salespeople are motivated by money, but what rewards do they seek? This seems like a fine point, but motivations are different than rewards. 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I realize the \"driven and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Employment Ads&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Employment Ads","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/employment-ads\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2275,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/02\/battle-lines\/","url_meta":{"origin":24370,"position":3},"title":"Battle Lines","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve been busy over the past week or two handling a myriad of business topics and tasks which has decreased my blogging time dramatically.\u00a0 One item has come up during this time at one of our customers \u2013 a battle of wills amongst managers.\u00a0 This is no small battle, it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Assessing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Assessing","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/assessing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1433,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/02\/personality-assessments-and-stereotypes\/","url_meta":{"origin":24370,"position":4},"title":"Personality Assessments And Stereotypes","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"February 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Personality assessments, or \"communication style\" as I prefer, are highly valuable in the hiring process for one important aspect - communication.\u00a0 How many office conflicts have you seen where poor communication was adding oxygen to the fire?\u00a0 We see it in almost every office conflict. One way to diffuse these\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Aptitudes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Aptitudes","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/assessing\/aptitudes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":727,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/they-are-not-motivated\/","url_meta":{"origin":24370,"position":5},"title":"&#8220;They Are Not Motivated&#8221;","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I had lunch yesterday with a friend of mine who is a sales manager for a technology company. As is often the case, we started talking about some of the issues he is seeing with his team. 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