Team Building: Employee Training Targets Workplace Conflict

TEAM BUILDING

Workplace Conflict

Conflict is inherent in the workplace – any workplace. Sometimes conflict is productive: an constructive vehicle of change in an organization. Most often, however, conflict is experienced as a personal attack or threat: it is extremely uncomfortable and destructive.

Even simple conflicts involving single employees can easily expand to involve entire teams or units. The resulting environment can profoundly impact employee performance & effectiveness, workplace satisfaction, team cohesion, individual stress levels, and employee engagement.

Employers of all sizes can mitigate the impact of conflict in the workplace through specific team building programs that are designed to reduce conflict, while improving communication and trust among team members.

Employee Training: Team Building

Through targeted Team Building Programs focusing on improving conflict resolution and communication skills, employees are able to develop real tools to prevent and respond to conflicts differently.

Our On-Site Team Building Programs Are:

Practical
Comprehensive
Organization Specific
Affordable

Every CFR Team Building Program Incorporates:

Conflict Resolution Skill Building
Communication Skill Building
Non-Competitive Team Building Activities

Not A One-Size-Fits-All Team Building Program

Our services are designed to meet the unique circumstances your employees face day-to-day. Every industry and employer is different. Our goal is to provide practical skills building employee training that your staff can use when interacting with everyone, including: Customers, Colleagues, and Managers.

Provide your staff with education that gives more than just insight. Our training includes concrete tools and experiential practice, which is integral to reducing the conflict in the workplace, while building a strong cohesive team.

Workplace Conflict Is Expensive

Although workplace conflict is the largest reducible employer cost, it remains largely unaddressed.

Workplace conflict is a decisive factor in more than 50% of employee departures
Employee turnover results in costs related to recruiting training, lower productivity of new hire, and secondary morale effects on managers, peers and subordinates
Unresolved workplace conflict can end up in litigation, easily costing a company $50,000 to $100,000 in attorney fees and 3 to 5 years to settle
Workplace conflict significantly increases personal stress levels.
The total value of lost work time due to stress is estimated to be over $1.5 billion annually

Proactive efforts to reduce the presence and impact of workplace conflict, such as team building and the development of programs that effectively respond to conflict as it occurs, profoundly impact a employer’s bottom line.

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