Bill Gallagher walks through a CEO's team where members whispered privately instead of speaking up in meetings. He spent an hour coaching them on their conflict styles and where those came from, then helped them shift to more open conversations.
Do you have lots of back channel conversations, water cooler chats that definitely aren't.
All aligned and fabulous?
If you've got lots of back channel discussions, side chat, people buttonholing you like grabbing each other on the side to.
Talk about something that they don't want to talk about out in the open. We've got something for you on this one.
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So CEO that I was working with.
Had a ton of this.
They were completely like off on the side and their team was all doing these little private whisper things all over the place. And the deal was that this CEO.
Really was not one to cross and didn't have a very evolved conflict style.
So the thing that we did is we, we just talked, we spent, I.
Don'T know, a good hour talking about our conflict styles.
We talked about what conflict looked like.
In our households growing up, what our parents and family and cultural conflict styles were and then how we'd evolved it today. And then we all took some time to upgrade our approach and bring some self awareness to our own approach to conflict as well as some appreciation for others. So this conflict style discovery, conflict styles are developed very early on in your childhood, in your family, in your cultural environment.
So you want to discover what they.
Are and then notice are you embodying that same style or are you reacting to that?
But either way, it's probably not consciously.
A thought out and evolved approach.
So we want to share them, we.
Want to begin to upgrade them.
Simple as that. Over time they started to get more conversations out in the open, better, productive.
Healthier conflict, and then it's on to the next thing.
Hope that's helpful for you. My name is Bill Gates Gallagher, scalingcoach.com.
And host of the Scaling Up Business podcast. We'll talk to you again next time. Thank you.
