Resolving Conflicts

in the cause for which you are fighting, you will find enough support to continue with your undertaking. Your morale will be high because you know you are not working in isolation. You increase you strength exponentially if you can find two or more people who believe in you and your cause. Alexander the Great would never have had the courage and the determination to conquer the known world then had he not had those faithful childhood friends who had believed in his cause. The moment he squabbled with his friends, his vision began to blur and it spelled the doom of all his undertaking. When he killed his trusted friend in a fit of anger, the people who stood behind him in the thick-and-thin of his adventures started to plan against him. What I am saying is that if you have a group of people who believe in you, you can overcome a lot of snags and hurdles along the way. The good thing about cooperation is that you get to win together with the people you cooperate with. It is not a case of “me” getting the number one spot, but it is a case of “we” getting better together every day.

Resolving Conflicts

The hurdles to cooperation are conflicts, and you would really experience conflicts if you want to create a group with a common goal. Moreover, if you want to change, you will run into conflict with those people who do not want you to change. To clear this hurdle, you got to communicate your thoughts and feelings with these people. There are times when instead of communicating, we get entangled with no-communication at all. In no-communication, we may be speaking with other people but we may be failing to communicate the essential information we would like to relay. Likewise, we may be involved in a very unclear communication if we could not verbalize what we want and if we fail to listen. Misunderstanding may then ensue and conflict may arise because of miscommunication. In cases of miscommunication and misunderstanding, the

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