How Do You React When Confronted With An Issue
How do you react when confronted with an issue?
An issue is some sort of a conflict. It can be task related or relationship related. I believe I am better at handling relationship conflicts as compared to task oriented conflicts. Major part of the B School experience comes from working in groups and student committees. People from different places with different personalities and diverse backgrounds come together to achieve a goal which usually is either pulling off a big event in case of student committees or get good grades in case of study groups. This usually leads to task related conflicts. Moreover, since it is a residential program over 500 students are living together in the same campus. It is human nature that relationship conflict would arise.
When confronted with a conflict involving task, I usually employ the avoidance approach or the compromise approach. I give in too easily. Now that I sit and think about it, it could be because of my low self confidence and this under confidence leads me to believe that others would probably know more than me and thus accepting their perspective seems to be the right thing to do. But as has been proven time and again, I am usually not so wrong. Thus, I have started believing in my work and change my approach to handling an issue related to task. I still bend over when I am faced with extremely dominant people but I am working on not being a push over and slowly moving towards using confrontation approach to handle such conflicts.
As for relationship conflicts, I believe in confrontation. The person that I am, relationships have always taken precedence over success. Any issues in any of my relationships with my beloved ones have always taken priority in my life. My approach to solving relationship conflicts is usually one of confrontation. This is to ensure that there is no misunderstanding caused due to communication gaps. This approach has always worked for me in the past. Especially when the issue arises between
An issue is some sort of a conflict. It can be task related or relationship related. I believe I am better at handling relationship conflicts as compared to task oriented conflicts. Major part of the B School experience comes from working in groups and student committees. People from different places with different personalities and diverse backgrounds come together to achieve a goal which usually is either pulling off a big event in case of student committees or get good grades in case of study groups. This usually leads to task related conflicts. Moreover, since it is a residential program over 500 students are living together in the same campus. It is human nature that relationship conflict would arise.
When confronted with a conflict involving task, I usually employ the avoidance approach or the compromise approach. I give in too easily. Now that I sit and think about it, it could be because of my low self confidence and this under confidence leads me to believe that others would probably know more than me and thus accepting their perspective seems to be the right thing to do. But as has been proven time and again, I am usually not so wrong. Thus, I have started believing in my work and change my approach to handling an issue related to task. I still bend over when I am faced with extremely dominant people but I am working on not being a push over and slowly moving towards using confrontation approach to handle such conflicts.
As for relationship conflicts, I believe in confrontation. The person that I am, relationships have always taken precedence over success. Any issues in any of my relationships with my beloved ones have always taken priority in my life. My approach to solving relationship conflicts is usually one of confrontation. This is to ensure that there is no misunderstanding caused due to communication gaps. This approach has always worked for me in the past. Especially when the issue arises between