Workplace Conflict and Competition Handled: Interview with Dan Tocchini

Meeting resistance (from others and within ourselves) with curiosity is your career superpower. My guest Dan Tocchini deep dives into what resistance is really telling you and how to leverage it to build teams that produce creative solutions.

1. Every interaction is a design challenge to create psychological safety - get to the why with each team member.
2. We are hardwired with two mandates: stay alive and conserve energy. This is translated to us as looking good, feeling good, being right and staying in control. When we don't have any of these factors, we go into resistance.
3. Criticism, contempt, stonewalling or defensiveness are the ways we protect ourselves from perceived threats.
4. Envy and competition show up when an individual feels threatened by th excellence of others.
5. Creativity is about having an opinion. Design is about refining your field of options. All new possibility presents itself as a threat at first, so you have to release attachment to those opinions.
6. Preparing others to lead and succession planning are signs of a healthy work culture where excellence is celebrated not feared.

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