Healthy Confrontation

This past week was full of confrontations.

As our country prepares itself for the holiday season, feelings of gratitude, abundance, health, and togetherness permeate our consciousness, and its images flood the screens we give our attention to.

I intentionally chose to confront situations; both professionally and personally. I chose confrontation like my life depended upon it. Because it does. I, like every other human on this planet deeply desires to be seen and understood. If not understood, then respect is equally acceptable.

Healthy, intentional confrontation yields the succulent fruit of self-respect and courageous openness to opposition.

Within the workplace, a place where we dedicate so much of our most precious resource; our energy, can we really risk being unseen, misunderstood, and disrespected?

During org-wide strategic planning processes, many unspoken views, hidden agendas, and mis-alignments will be highlighted amongst leadership and staff. Confrontation is inevitable. It is necessary and most importantly, it is nothing to be afraid of nor resist.

One of the purposes of strategic planning is to address the proverbial elephant in the room and when choosing the facilitator of this process, it is helpful to choose someone who can do so in a healthy and collaborative manner that yields the end result your organization desires most; alignment.

Backup the Business is not afraid of confrontation because we don't embody negative energy surrounding that word. We use it as a healthy tool to help YOU be seen, understood, respected, and ultimately grow your organization.

As the holidays are now upon us, should there be any anxiety surrounding togetherness (or the lack thereof), remember, confrontation doesn't have to be destructive. It can be used to build a bridge when expressed in a healthy way.