ME1115: Week 4 Assignment 1. Briefly describe a conflict in your personal life or workplace and identify it as intrapersonal, interpersonal, or intergroup.

I’m going to discuss an intrapersonal conflict that I experienced with myself. I am the type of person who says that I want something and that I’m going to do it or get it, but I end up not going through with it. Take when I was in school for example. I had it in my mind that I was going to go to the Air Force Reserves, it was just something about the thought of going off and experiencing life and seeing and learning new things. I signed up in my senior year of high school took the oath and everything. Before I knew it I was it was time for graduation. In my mind I was ready but in my heart I wasn’t really ready to just leave my family, I had really never gone anywhere and I was a shy teenager so leaving and not being around them was going to be different. I had bit of a stand still because the day that I was supposed to go to the Air Force Base where I would be going through basic training I was like 5 pounds’ overweight and so the first thing that came to mind was “that’s it I’m going home before I even get started” that right there was a conflict in itself. I had kind of given up I called my parents and they talked with me and prayed with me that everything works out like it’s supposed to. The next day I was shipped off to Basic Training. Even throughout basic training I experienced intrapersonal conflicts it was like I felt myself giving up, towards the end of basic training my leg started giving me problems so I couldn’t really meet the requirements needed for graduation, in my head I just wanted to call it quits and just come home I was like forget graduation right then and there. I had to stay extra weeks due to that infliction. I finally graduated and then shipped to my next destination Technical School. I went through my weeks there and graduated. I was finally finished and was heading back home to Texas where I would be working in San Antonio. To me everything seemed fine but slowly but surely I started doubting myself I started thinking to myself maybe this was something that I should have thought about more. I didn’t feel like I felt in the beginning I think maybe it had to do with the fact that I was out there by myself, I didn’t know anybody, everybody already had friends and had been there for quite some time. Me on the other hand I was new meat, the shy girl from a little town called Oakhurst, Texas. I continued to go back and forth to San Antonio on the weekends for a while then it all went became a conflict for me, no longer did I want to continue going down there, no longer did I want to be the shy, new girl. I made up in my mind that I didn’t want to pursue that lifestyle anymore and I felt in my heart it was the right thing to do so I did it. 2. Describe how your conflict was or was not beneficial. Why or why not?

At first it was beneficial to me because in the process of going through basic training and technical school I was able to learn new things, meet new people, see places I have never been and I was able to make new friends during the whole process. Then on the other hand it wasn’t beneficial because I feel like I wasted time in my life that I could have been doing something else. Like for instance going to school, here I am at 25 and I just now made up in my mind that I wanted to go to school when I could have done that back in 2008 instead of going through so much, my I guess that was just a learning experience maybe I needed to get away before I got in trouble or got caught up enjoying life with my friends that I never accomplished nothing in my life. 3. Describe the problem from the other person’s point of view.

From another person’s point of view that may have thought that I was crazy or I needed something to do to get quick money. I don’t know. But from my parents and the rest of my family point of view, they were happy for me in the beginning they stood behind me and supported my every decision. On my father’s side of the family there were already members of the family that were in the military so he was extra excited and proud of me for taking the initiative to want to do something different. When I made the decision to not continue with the Air Force Reserves, they still supported me they didn’t judge me nor down talk me and that’s what I loved most about them. In life I learned that you only have one life to live so why not enjoy it to the fullest and do what makes you happy no matter what the people around you have to say it’s you that have to deal with the consequences that comes with the decisions you make. 4. Explain why resolving conflict positively in the workplace is an important profession skill.

Conflict in the workplace is an inevitable reality. This is why it is so important to understand what causes conflict in business and to have a conflict resolution plan in place to address it when it happens. The skills enable staff members to work well together because the parties involved know how to navigate the disagreement Conflict among co-workers creates distractions that can hinder an organization’s ability to meet corporate objectives. And, when conflict in the workplace is not managed, it can create stress, affect job performance and be an underlying cause of a hostile workplace. By learning how to resolve conflicts in a professional, respectful manner, the employees involved are often able to strengthen their relationships. The goal of a workplace conflict resolution strategy is to find a win-win, or a compromise, so each party’s interests are met at some level.

P.S.
I know I got a little carried away while writing this but I didn’t realize how I had dealt with an intrapersonal conflict within myself. I guess you never know what you are faced with in life until you actually slow down and examine life and yourself. Like the saying goes “Stop and Smell the Roses!!”