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Reflective Essay: My Conflict Management Style

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My Conflict management style When working in a career of public safety you will constantly be faced with conflicts on a day to day basis. It is important to be self aware of the methods you may use to solve a conflict, on the job and in your everyday life. It is also important to know what type of management style to use depending on the situation. In this paper, I will be talking about my primary conflict management style and my secondary, the effects conflicts may have on relationships in my life, and changes I may need to make to deal with conflicts better.
Conflict management style
Throughout my life, I will run into conflicts. It is important to know how to solve a conflict and how to deal with it appropriately. There are different ways …show more content…

At first, a few years ago instead of dealing with a conflict I would push it off to the side and avoid dealing with the conflict and let it take its tole on how it works out. Now that I have started dealing with my conflicts I believe it has made relationships in my life stronger. I have realised when dealing with a conflict it is always important to get what you have to say out in the open, this way there is no tension or build up of emotions. As well as it is important to keep your values and not to change your values to make someone else happy. Because in the end you cannot control how other people are going to act but you can control how you will act to certain situation. My patterns of emotion, communication and behaviour can change depending on the type of situation and what is being discussed. For instance, at first when I started to address conflicts I would tend to get over emotional and would not communicate well with the person I had the conflict with. I also would have a change in behaviour and would often dwell on the same conflict for weeks at a time. Now, since I have dealt with conflict more in life my behaviour has completely changed towards conflicts. When dealing with a conflict I always look forward to coming to a solution to solve the problem, my other behaviours and communication skills have greatly improved as well. When I used to be involved in conflicts I would often let the

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