...these dimensions to be constituted like a force field, within which predictable paradoxes, tensions and dilemmas play out. Human beings can learn to deal with these tensions and conflicts more effectively by facing up to the negatives as well as the positives of their lives, including the tensions of life and death, love and hate, strength and weakness and meaning and absurdity. Best known authors on existential counselling are Irvin Yalom in the USA through his book Existential Psychotherapy (1981) New York: Basic Books and Emmy van Deurzen, who created the British School and who published her bookExistential Counselling and Psychotherapy in 1988 (London: Sage Publications; second edition 2002, third edition 2011). Existential therapy essentially helps deal with the problems of everyday living, such as relationship difficulties (both with Individuals & in Couple Therapy), anxiety/fear, food/body-image issues, addictions, mood disorders, social anxiety, panic, trauma, low self-esteem, unresolved childhood issues, sexual issues and others. It is a clear, direct and honest approach helping clients work on their particular, unique, experiences, problems, dilemmas and issues. It is appropriate for both short and long term therapy. It ideally suits those who wish to examine themselves and their relationship with others and the world. Existential psychotherapy and counselling draws its frame of reference from a philosophical tradition rather than medical or diagnostic principles...
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...positive behavior of conflict and resolution. With these teams there is perseverance and healthy compromise to get the task at hand finished, and its everybody’s responsibility. The stress and responsibility of getting the job done is on the shoulders of the team as a whole not just one person. High Performing Teams organizational management has no chain of command, however the team is considered one unit. Avenues of High Performing Teams Difficulties managers are having establishing self-directed High Performing Teams.- Global information technologies pertaining to being proficient in computer hardware and software is a must in the twentieth century. Everyone is connected globally throughout every nation through the Internet. Businesses market and hire all over the world to trade, service, and sell to different cultures around the world. It is important to know how to video conference, email, research credible sites, and operate applications such as excel and Microsoft word. High Performance functioning teams need to be equipped with virtual teams and e-leadership for businesses to run smoothly and compete with other companies in the world today (S.Zaccaro, 2002). Another difficulty managers run into is establishing High Performing Teams is approaching the “Storming Stage” in the Bruce Tuckman Model. The Storming Stage comes after the orientation of the “Forming Stage”. The individuals of the team compete for the role-model and team...
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...Conflict Resolution Paper Table of Contents I. Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………3 II. What is a conflict?....................................................................................................................3 III. History………………………………………………………….………………………………..3 IV. Conflict………………………………………………………………….………………………4 V. Objective………………………………………………………………………….……………..6 VI. Proposed solutions……………………………………………………………………………7 I. Executive Summary This research paper examines the most effective way to manage conflicts in an organization. Paychex Inc. has been very successful over the years. During this year Theodore Flipper has noticed several clients has terminated their contracts with the organization due to our price increase. Since we lost clients we have been experiencing financial problems. The CEO of Paychex hired Gary Martin to straighten out the financial issues. Gary Martin has a successful background operating as Operations Manager with 25 companies over the last thirty years of his career. Every company he worked from has high reviews of about Gary. The operations area of Paychex, Inc. has been experiencing conflicts with Gary and his assistant manager, Jerry, ever since came to the organization. They can’t seem to come to an agreement on anything they discuss. Now, a meditator is onboard to help aide in these conflicts. II. What is a conflict? A conflict is a disagreement, fight, war or battle...
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...Stages of Team Development By: Kelly Graves “The Corporate Therapist™” Look through this model with your leadership and management teams to locate where you think you are in your organizations’ stage of development. Next, use it to help you improve your leadership and management effectiveness. Forming The initial forming stage is the process of putting the structure of the team together. Team members enter with ambiguous feelings and attitudes. Conflict is avoided at all costs because of the need to be accepted into the group. Team members reflect not only on the tasks at hand, but also about each other. Feelings and Thoughts Observable Behaviors Team Needs Leadership Style Required Excitement, anticipation, and optimism Suspicion, fear, and anxiety about the job ahead Tentative attachment to team Why am I here? Why are they here? What is expected of me? How much influence will I have? How much am I willing to give? Politeness Guarded; Sporadic participation Attempts to define tasks and decisions on how it will be accomplished Attempts to establish acceptable group behavior Abstract discussions of concepts and issues Discussion of symptoms and problems not relevant to the task; difficulty in identifying relevant problems Complaints about the organization Decisions on what information needs to be gathered Impatience with discussion Team mission and purpose Team membership Team goals and objectives Measurement and feedback Definition of roles and responsibilities...
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...Bonus Paper on Conflict Management Bob Smith Course No: GMGT 2070 Section A02 Professor Janet Smith Date: July 25, 2015 An increasing issue among many employees in the working environment today, organizational conflict can be visible anywhere. We seek to assess the article presented by the author on its issues among colleagues in the workplace, linking theoretical models and hypotheses to the situation presented, as well as conflict resolution methods to be implemented. The article begins with a brief introduction of a French banker named Philippe, who accepts a management position at an investment bank in London, in which he believed this employment opportunity would allow for him to expand his network by gaining valuable international work experience and skills (Corkindale, 2007). However, after more then a year on the job, Philippe and his co-workers began engaging in inter-organizational conflicts, where he found it difficult to adjust into his new role in a foreign country. Although Philippe believed he has been acting in a consistent and fair manner, formal complaints from other members of his team began to arise, accusing Philippe of inconsistent management styles, and favoring certain team members over others (Corkindale, 2007). Philippe agreed to receive coaching on his management techniques, however he felt that the bank had not properly trained him for his role within the organization, in which he states that the banks focus has been on profit making...
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...difficult to appoint leaders to spearhead the activities of a company. This research bases its argument on the Totally Tubular Technology (T3) Company. The company needs to change its operational and leadership structure to achieve maximum returns due to is expansion to reach international markets. The study depicts the process of appointing a leader concerning the skills, knowledge and experience of the person. The appointing process involves the use of existing leadership theories and information from research articles based on how other companies in other countries carried out their elections. The development of the research includes the strategies, tools and processes that enables the leader to address concerns such as team work, conflict resolution and employee motivation. The research...
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...one speech-language pathologist, and ten physical therapists. The staff members are unique individuals with high level of education and various skill levels. Together, they are a highly engaged team. The most senior staff member has thirty-nine years of clinical experience with twenty years as the department supervisor. The most junior staff member has ten months of clinical experience and a strong focus on research. Majority of the staff have over fifteen years of clinical experience and mentor the less experienced staff members. Therefore, I must identify the priorities of the department and the larger organization, the technical and clinical skills of the staff, the engagement of the staff, and adjust my leadership from directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating depending on my staff’s needs and the situation. This style allows me to be flexible in my approach depended on the tasks and actions that I am requesting from them. This style also allows me to support my staff in their professional and technical development. This style resulted in the development of a clinical education program, preschool-aged therapy group, teaching opportunities both in the community and overseas, and home-based therapy program. I am sure my leadership style will continue to adapt as my professional career evolves. A1a. Strengths: Two strengths of a situational leadership style include the flexibility of the leader to adapt his or her approach to the situation and the empowerment...
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...Ch11: Leaders are necessary for effective team work. They need to be there to shape goals, coordinate effort, and motivate members. Carver should be a better leader. Effects to change the leader may often result in negative supervisor reactions, including resistance to change, role conflict, unwillingness to relinquish power, fear of appearing incompetent and fear of job termination. These responses may cause the leaders to engage in actions that thwart, rather than facilitate team effectiveness. Carver is an autocratic leader, since he is an appointed leader. HE should go for coaching; coaching is about building team work, not about doing the team’s work. Leadership is not the same as management, people want to be led. Leadership is the ability to influence people to achieve the goals of a team. Transformational leadership and Transactional leadership depend on the leader’s power to reinforce subordinate for their successful completion of the task. POWER is the capacity to influence people. Using power feels good, people are attracted to power, people who have power often have egocentrically biased view of themselves, believing themselves to be more fair, generous and trustworthy. Not every decision requires the input of their entire team. It is simply not practical to consult the team on every organizational issue, but where to draw the line is unclear. Legitimate power (based on person’s holding of a formal position, other person complies because of belief in legitimacy of...
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...HRM 4495 CH 7 Team decision making- pitfalls and solutions 1. Decision making is an integrated sequence of activities -gathering, interpreting and exchanging information -creating and identifying alternative courses of action -choosing among alternatives by integrating differing perspectives -opinion of team members -implementing a choice and monitoring the consequence 2. Individual decision making biases -Framing bias E.G. A spread disease in US, two plans were suggested Plan A: if adopted, 200 people will be saved Plan B: if adopted, 1/3 probability that all people will be saved, but 2/3 probability that no one will be saved. Many people chose plan A, then another 2 plan is suggested Plan C: if adopted, 400 people will die Plan D: if adopted, 1/3 probability that no one will die, and 2/3 probability all people will die. When the identical problem with the same differently, more people will chose the risky plan D. options worded *This inconsistency is a preference reversal and reveals the framing effect. Almost any decision can be reframed as a gain or a loss relative to sth. Decision makers’ reference points for defining gain and loss are often arbitrary. -Overconfidence In the team, overconfidence leads people less to focus on their teammates’ strength, as opposed to their weaknesses and neglect the strength and weakness of members of competitor teams. -Confirmation bias It is a tendency for people to...
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...have a broad range of talents and temperaments. According to Wren (1995), “the only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture, and the unique talents of leaders is their ability to understand and work with culture” (p. 273). In the past 100 years, researchers have studied the means, methods, and models of building and leading teams. The research on leadership models and behaviors emerged through the modernization of manufacturing and production of goods and services. Studies included the study of biographical characteristics of members, such as sex, age, education, marital status, race, religious affiliation, geographic region of birth, weight, and height are some of the data collected (Bass, 2010, p. 7). Moreover, the purpose of this essay is to give an overview of the team’s online assessment scores and how each team member’s leadership style translates into specific leadership behaviors and practices. In addition to the overview, Learning Team B will describe how each team member’s style reflects one or more leadership theories, while explaining team member’s leadership style, use of power, conflict-handling style, and team skills that potentially affect team effectiveness. Learning Team B leadership analysis is based on members’ self-assessment scores from the Pearson-Prentice Hall Self-Assessment Library...
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...(Bernardin 15). Consequently, it is now more important than ever, HR professionals and Managers develop skills to manage the diversity of the organization today. One such skill is the development of Emotional Intelligence (EI). (EI) is paramount to managing the changing characteristics of a diverse workforce in the competitive business environment of today. Cultural differences can be a source of conflict in the workplace that can affect productivity and ultimately the bottom line. Much like family that evolves and grows through marriage, or friendships, people are often thrown together with different interests and personalities. The same can be said for the workplace, except that often people are thrown together for no other reason than they have chosen the same career path or have talents that bring them together as part of a team. Whether co-workers like each other or not, they still have to be able to work together (Pincus 159). For most people, dealing with conflict is about as exciting as a trip to the dentist or going through an audit by the IRS. However, conflict is inevitable and it exists in the midst of the best...
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...1.1 Discuss models of Strategic change with reference to Macedonia. (AC 1.1: Discuss models of strategic change). The Macedonia is located in Balkan Region and declared freedom in 1991.the population around 3 million. The country is starting to improve their economy and democratic environment with the goal to integration with European Union. Their system highly adopt to communism style and unemployment was very high. The country divided in too much variety by ethic, regional and religious and there were no democratic environment. Every place the communism style practiced and there is no way for new investment or development opportunities. Lewin's Change Management Model Unfreeze Stage The Macedonia population segmented by ethically, politically and there was no leadership system practiced. The Macedonians life style is totally communism style and there was no support to government from them. They failed to improve the economy even they have low population. The lack of democratic practices and conflict resolution create an unstable situation in the country. The Macedonian Federation of Trade Union (CCM) start the transition from communist to democratic through its lost privilege connection to the government. Mr. Tim Lewis brought in as a partner by an organization-consulting firm under contract with Swiss Agency For Development And Corporation. The CCM has to recognize the areas that need to change. The government is politically unstable and the development of economy...
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...Leadership Development Seminars and ECQ-based Readings The success or failure of any endeavor depends on leadership. Now, more than ever before, we need leaders in our organizations and in our world. Great leaders create and communicate a vision and move people into action to achieve it. They ignite our passion and inspire us to do our best. Government leaders in the 21st century are experiencing change at a more rapid pace than previous generations. Rapid advances in technology have expanded the quantity of work we are capable of accomplishing, and also where it’s accomplished. We have a more highly educated workforce, yet face diminishing resources with an increased demand for productivity, and the essential services we provide to the American public. To be successful at navigating these challenges leaders must develop the essential skills to motivate their employees, effectively communicate with others, fine-tune critical thinking skills, and build and leverage partnerships. Future leaders must also be visionary; i.e., possess the ability to identify trends and the courage to be innovative. Being technically adept in your field will no longer be enough. In response to these demands on senior executives, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management identified five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) that all aspiring government leaders and executives must possess. These ECQs and Fundamental Competencies were developed by OPM after extensive research on the attributes...
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...Leadership Development Seminars and ECQ-based Readings The success or failure of any endeavor depends on leadership. Now, more than ever before, we need leaders in our organizations and in our world. Great leaders create and communicate a vision and move people into action to achieve it. They ignite our passion and inspire us to do our best. Government leaders in the 21st century are experiencing change at a more rapid pace than previous generations. Rapid advances in technology have expanded the quantity of work we are capable of accomplishing, and also where it’s accomplished. We have a more highly educated workforce, yet face diminishing resources with an increased demand for productivity, and the essential services we provide to the American public. To be successful at navigating these challenges leaders must develop the essential skills to motivate their employees, effectively communicate with others, fine-tune critical thinking skills, and build and leverage partnerships. Future leaders must also be visionary; i.e., possess the ability to identify trends and the courage to be innovative. Being technically adept in your field will no longer be enough. In response to these demands on senior executives, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management identified five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) that all aspiring government leaders and executives must possess. These ECQs and Fundamental Competencies were developed by OPM after extensive research on the attributes...
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...communication between staff members, and helps to manage, create, and sustain organizational opertions. Sometimes if the business consultant does not establish a communication plan with the client many projects have problems and are not successful. Week Five Discussion Question 2 What are some strategies for building an emotional commitment to engagement on the part of the client? Which of these strategies are going to be the most effective for your project? Why are these strategies the most effective? In my opinion, some of the strategies for building an emotional commitment to engagement on the part of the client includes but not limited to trust, commitment, raise a sense of awareness, and a cooperative approach. In dealing with conflict remaining netural is important in many situations involving the client and staff members. As well as...
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