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Season’s Greetings

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

We at CDC Integrated Services wish to take a moment to thank everyone who chose us to aid them with the issues brought to us during the past year. We are grateful for your business and wish all of our clients a safe and peaceful new year.

Peace and Goodwill to all.

From Jerry Cooper and the CDCI team

A Retainer That Makes Sense

Benefits of a Professional Conflict Resolution Services On Retainer:  Dozens of different conflicts confront people in a corporate setting every day. It’s a fact of life, and with millions of people are in the workforce today, it’s not going to get any easier. Some companies have such strife among the workers that the work environment becomes hostile, and getting things done is difficult at best. To avoid such potentially disastrous consequences, it is important to have options, including access to a professional conflict resolution service already on retainer. The following are the benefits that will come with hiring a professional to facilitate/mediate conflicts that fall outside the normal give and take dynamic.

Conflict Solution Companies Put Employees First:  When human interaction in the workplace causes strife, workers can find themselves in difficult situations. Most companies have policies that direct employees to seek the assistance of their supervisors when experiencing difficulties, but what if the supervisor or manager is the source of the conflict?

The outside conflict solutions company companies put employees first and make sure that they understand that facilitators/mediators are not there to cause anyone to lose their job, or causing the company any problems. Conflict solution professions know how to defuse disputes in ways that allow the parties to move forward more productively. Their goal is to breakdown the arguments, remove false assumptions, open communication between disputants, and expand options. To do it correctly takes time, and that is a resource not available to those trying to get the job done.

The Goal is Peaceful Resolution:  Going forward, you’ll find that a conflict resolution company achieves peaceful outcomes at a very high rate and at surprisingly modest costs when compared to traditional avenues such as litigation or arbitration. The goal here is to make sure that anger and other frenetic emotional responses are not the norms. Emotional responses drive negative behaviors that make the arguments more difficult to overcome, and conflict professionals can help with calming things down before strife causes those involved to quit. Turnover produces many negatives of its own, and facilitating/mediating disputes can have a positive effect on the “revolving door”.

Quick Recovery:  When conflicts are not resolved promptly and fairly, the parties involved will build and hold grudges, and at some point, those grudges will boil over. They will feed lingering discontent, and will not want to work things out when future disagreements arise. Conflict solutions professionals focus on efficiently resolving conflicts and problems for their client company. Their goal is to make sure that conflict resolution creates an agreement between the parties, and the dynamics of the group is restored. A powerful benefit of having a conflict solutions company on retainer is it thwarts the paralysis of uncertainty, allowing a healing process to begin much sooner.

Empowering Your Workers:  Following along with other benefits, it’s imperative to understand that a professional conflict resolution company empowers workers by providing them the means to resolve the conflict and stay in control of the process. They educate the workers and unite people instead of dividing them. They focus on hearing all sides. They work towards resolving issues that are going to help not only the immediate issue(s) but will offer a blueprint for employees going forward. Managers and employees will be empowered to deal with conflicts before they get out of hand. Ultimately, over time a cultural shift may occur making the use of the outside professional necessary only on an exception basis.

The Results Matter:  As stated above, the most obvious benefit is the high degree of success. Moreover, once implemented, the willingness of employees to use the process under the guidance of the neutral third-party increases, and the number of intractable disputes decreases.

Want to know more? Please contact us for more information. We can be reached at 832-452-8537