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CONFLICT RESOLUTION & RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT... … Appropriate Resolutions™ for home, work, community, and everywhere in between. |
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© 1998-2008 Joseph Ravick and Appropriate Resolutions™ |
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If conflict competency is your goal, like most humans, you’ll have to progress through the adult learning continuum. Such a personal development process will enable you to perform new tasks more and more effectively. Usually, the more complex and difficult the undertaking, the more practice it will take to adapt your mind, body and spirit to the new challenges facing them. And we all do this at our own speed in our own time. This applies to any new skills or skill-sets. And it's not only an adult reality! So if you want to change how you respond to people when conflicts come up, it will take time and a lot of patience with yourself. It may also require some professional expertise to help you manage some of those steep learning curves. Managing conflictual interactions, negotiating your needs, requires competency, a goal worth striving for. Accept that it takes more than one workshop for most of us to change how we do what’s important. Be patient with yourself. If you’re serious about your competency, if committed, then the following learning continuum will happen, one way or another. |
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"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - KAHIL GIBRAN with thanks to Anna Parker in Victoria, Canada |
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For more about life, conflicts and relationships in an entertaining format, check out The Resolver… a free, no-obligation, monthly e-journal. |
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An Adult Learning Continuum |
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Stage One… Unconscious Incompetence: When we don’t yet know what we don’t know and need to know. |
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Stage two… Conscious Incompetence: When we begin to understand what we don’t know, and what we need to learn. Then as we use our new-found knowledge… |
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Stage three… Conscious competence: When we begin to apply what we need to learn, our new skills and knowledge. Carefully and mindfully we take our first 'baby' steps. |
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Stage four… Unconscious competence: When we apply the new skills and knowledge, often without conscious thought, usually accomplishing what we set out to do. After measuring the outcomes, of course. "Look Mom, no hands!" NOTE: Incompetence is defined as simply not knowing how to do a 'thing' well when measured against accepted criteria and/or benchmarks. Competence is assumed to be the opposite. |