5 Team conflict resolution strategies for the workplace. Teams cannot and will not, perform to their best ability, unless they work in a safe, respectful and uplifting team environment.

And it does not matter how racked the team is by conflict shown by gossiping, backstabbing, personality conflicts, bullying and a lack of ownership, accountability and responsibility.

Here are 5 team conflict strategies to transform your team:-

1) Build Respect

Use a teambuilding group that builds a deep understanding how how your team adds to each other, through wisdom, experience, culture, tradition and personality. Make sure that it is FUN! Don't let them Lecture your team, ad nauseam!

2) Build Unity

Get them working together in diverse teams. Bring different levels, departments, genders, cultures and historical experience together. Let them experience the power of unity.

3) Create a Code of Conduct

When each member of the team has a say in how they will or won't behave... they are EASILY able to easily manage their own interpersonal interactions. So what you want to develop is a peer-created, peer-managed code of conduct.

4) Clear Interpersonal Conflict

This is the point where we have agreement, and one of the most important team conflict strategies is to get them to clear their challenges - directly - personally and on a private one-on-one basis.

5) Manage into the Future

Once set-up, with the correct commitments and focus, this process will need to be maintained into the future. NB - not by the team manager. Yes, you can step back - because your team will manage their interpersonal behavior - all by themselves!