Leadership is a key area within conflict management, regarding how to solve them and manage to avoid them in the future. Conflicts can arise because of several factors, such as goals, personality conflicts, values etc. Although conflicts are seen as an issue, conflict is a part of life for the use as a learning opportunity or a leadership opportunity. Conflict management depends on your conflict style, and according to the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument there are five different conflict management styles("5 Conflict Management Styles At A Glance"). Although there are five different styles, I will only discuss three and how you could implement Goleman’s leadership styles to be able to solve the conflict.
The first conflict management
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The competing style is the “win-lose” approach, where you act in a decisive way to be able to achieve you goal, without advising the other party. This can also be on the disadvantage of the other party which will result in a loss for them. This style is mostly used in times of emergency when there is a time factor that needs to be taking into consideration("5 Conflict Management Styles At A Glance"). The leadership style that would be most effective regarding a competing style is the commanding leader. The reason why i chose the commanding leadership style is because when you are using the competing conflict management style you need someone who takes control and is decisive. The commanding leader gives clear instructions and expects full consent. This leadership style works well during an emergency when you need rapid actions without any questions("6 Leadership Styles, And When You Should Use Them"). The problem with the competing style as well as the commanding leadership style is that it brings down people’s moral and work, as well as it gives short term rewards but the long term effects can be destructive for your relationship to your