[aliceyhg]

Whenever conflict arises at work, I usually just take a pause and buy the other person a drink and get to know each other on a more personal level. Its fun doing this and usually it ends up with me understanding my coworker on a more human level and we come to an agreement and work better together. A few years ago I would have fought to have my way and as satisfying as it was to win (occasionally), the attitude is very divisive and alienating for both parties involved.

[k__]

I'm doing Polyamory for the better part of my adult life and I learned much about conflict resolution. Because when you have multiple partners and they also have multiple partners you just end up with problems more often. If you take too long to fix these, the whole thing isn't viable anymore.

This also helped me in my career. I stopped thinking about "relationships" from a monogamous romantical point of view, but in a more generalized way.

I have feelings for every person I meet in life, some I love, some I like, some I find sexually attractive, some I find intellectual inspiring etc.

I want to be on good terms with all of those who I consider to be in my life for longer time, so I can't work with secrecy, fighting or passive aggressive behaviour.

[Vinnl]

Work is an especially odd situation as "your way" is not necessarily to benefit you. Oftentimes, you both have the same goal ("what's best for the company"), but you disagree on how to reach that ("A is best" vs "B is best"). Once you realise and agree on that, conflicts become easier to resolve.