When you are building teams, it is inevitable that team conflict is going to occur. Team conflict can be good and it can be destructive. As part of your executive leadership training, you want to learn how to know the difference between good and destructive team conflict and how to resolve conflict that is destructive. Team conflict is good when there is a diversity of thoughts and ideas. This usually leads to better solutions and outcomes.
However, there is team conflict that is destructive to the productivity and effectiveness of the team. This destructive team conflict occurs when the conflict is interfering with the team reaching its goals. Left unaddressed, destructive conflict could escalate to the point where it has a major negative impact on the team. So the question becomes, what is the best course of action you can take when destructive team conflict occurs?
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