Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict

A must-have resource for building collaboration and trust when the wrong word or phrase can set someone off.

In many workplaces today, workplace conflict is an escalating issue. The shift to remote work and hybrid teams has left many people longing for deeper human connection. On top of this, add a younger generation clamoring for more feedback and impatient for change, steady advances in technology that can feel threatening to job security, or people reexamining priorities and quietly quitting. Take the increase in anxiety, stress, and depression, mix in the loss of human relationships, and you get less tolerance and understanding leading, ultimately, to more unresolved workplace conflict.

Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict is an essential resource for all employees (and their managers) who are looking for help on how to navigate frequent workplace conflicts, including with their boss and other difficult people, so they can rebuild trust, collaboration, and ultimately enjoy more influence at work.

Leadership and workplace culture experts Karin Hurt and David Dye share practical and easy-to-follow tactics such as:

Over 50 actual phrases you can use to deescalate common workplace conflict situations and build trust.Sample dialogs to demonstrate how phrasing improves interactions.Critical communication tools to ensure workplace issues are addressed before they fester and become more difficult to manage.Findings and real-world cases from a workplace conflict survey conducted by the authors.