Start at the beginning – What is Conflict2Benefit.
Greetings and welcome to the Conflict Benefit Blog.
This is really quite simple…
Professionally I work in conflict management. In various modes and methods I help individuals, groups and organizations, consider, design, deploy, assess and advance ways to manage the conflicts they face. Sometimes this is as simple as a supportive conversation. Other times it as as complex as building the first Organizational Ombudsman Program for use in Japan by Japanese nationals in a company facing serious challenges, or determining what was the value created by an internal dispute resolution program that dealt with 2,400 cases in a work force of 40,000 people.
Regardless of scale or complexity, I do this work because it matters. It matters to the people involved, and to many who do not even know about it. More importantly, it matters to me. Conflict Benefit is not just a witty tag line or marketing riff. It is my story, a way I see my life, and a guiding force. It’s success is my success.
My hope for this blog is to explore the notion of conflict – in myriad forms – and discuss what might be done, what might have been done, to generate benefit from the situation – real, enduring benefit. Sometimes the benefit may be measured in time, or dollars, or appreciated in the change of an emotional state from less desired to more desired. Sometime the benefit my be measured by what did NOT happen. Plan to explore stories from the news, the business and academic worlds of course. But also may recall favorite stories, movies, music and more.
The intent will always be to genuinely look for better, learn something, and wonder, out loud, in an organized manner about something we deal with every single day.
Looking forward to doing my best with this and seeing what others might also bring to the table.
Thanks
John
