You Don’t Have To Argue In Business If You Do This One Thing
We all know that conflict is inevitable, you can’t go through business without running into arguments. Your arguments are often with co-founders who are either family or friends. The question is how you can develop a blueprint so you can engage in arguments as productively as possible?
Here are three ideas to your blueprint.
Firstly, Start to think backwards.
Which means there is this one side of business which is called “difficult stuff people don’t want to talkt about” when running a business. People often forget the talking about once success comes into your business, how would you handle it?
In relationships, you have to have 100% trust otherwise why is it called trust? Avoid certain pitfalls of public fighting if you have an argument do not post it on Facebook or any Social-Media. Another big no is to get involved with third-parties.
For example what does it look like if there is a property involved in the business and there is a 50/50 agreement?Would you run to a lawyer?
NO
Every business owner is different a solution for you is to check out who is responsible for that certain task you will notice that things will run smoothly by dividing tasks for a business on where the founders talents lay.
Don’t just talk what happens if it doesn’t work, but also what happens if it works? Be real about this. Start to think backwards on how to manage your day to day operations and when you plan in details you will enjoy more success than you’d planned.
Secondly, Talk about facing failures.
Roadblocks are inevitable, but there are two ways you can ensure that any conflicts with the people you work are resolved as smoothly as possible.
Firstly, avoid shutting down your emotional responses completely and instead harness them to show empathy and understanding for those you are working with.
For example CEO’s are more likely to hit a complete wall, because they have difficulty handling emotional intelligence when facing difficult decisions, for them they fail to resolve issues, because they are inexperienced.
Secondly, manage your emotions with a structure. If you are professionally close to someone, there is a chance that they will be a “high conflict personality” that will never deal with arguments themselves, no matter how equipped you are yourself.
Use the CARS-Method, which means responding to an argument by Connecting, Analysing, Responding and Setting Limits on the situation.
If you argue, don’t give them an insight into themselves, because they won’t listen. Instead focus on the choices that are in front of you, one choice is to hang-up the phone or walk away. But there are more mature ways of handling things.
Honesty and decisivness can have a positive outcome, when facing failures with your business partners.
For example, you can say “We had interest, but we booked it right after Christmas where lots of places close down for couple days.”
Disagreements won’t resolve themselves, but a proactive approach can save you time, money and energy.
Lastly, Stay calm and Listen.
“To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try”- Thomas Jefferson
Once you expand your business do not compromise your company values.
Ask yourself what the ideal situation is within the next three years and write your values down, so you can see it anywhere.
Let’s face it business is though, but who would do it if it was easy?
Thanks for reading!
