Conflict Management with Dana Garnett

12/09/21 • 69 min

"Don't just think positive thoughts. Feel positive feelings." This is just one of many golden nuggets of wisdom I gained from my conversation with Dana Garnett, a conflict management strategist and professional mediator. Dana is an insightful conflict expert who helps businesses and teams clear the deepest rifts to working in harmony fast. Founder of The Mindful Strategy she applies her vast business and life lessons learned to help improve business and social dynamics.
In this episode, we explore what causes conflict to exist - both in individuals and on teams. She shares her insights on the elements of a successful team and how conflict arises when one or more of those elements is not in sync with the others.
How does taking someone else's position actually help you? What's the harm in leaders ending conflict with "let's agree to disagree"? Can leaders actually get better at managing conflict or is it something you troubleshoot when it comes up?
Let's dig in. Your conflict management strategist is dialed in.

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Leading a Startup Organization with Jack York

Jack York is a successful leader who self-describes as a "mediocre CEO". A co-founder of the senior living technology company, iN2L, Jack is the prototypical Head + Heart leader that we talk about. In this episode, Jack shares some of his own story, insights into how to lead a startup business, and what's next for him. The episode spans topics like:

Launching a technology product into a wary senior living industry
The tough early years of leading an organization
Where he would focus between Product, Sales or Team when launching a business
How cancer affected his perspective on life
Preparing your personal finances and expectations of profitability
His upcoming road show and reality TV show focused on storytelling

Thanks to Jack for joining me for this conversation and for his great advice to our starting organization, Bella Groves.

Next Episode

Do People In Aging Services Perpetuate Ageism? with Guest, Ashton Applewhite

Season 3 of the Level Up Leadership Podcast kicks off with a rather provocative episode: “Do People in Aging Services Perpetuate Ageism?” [YouTube vide of episode.]
It’s a long title, but I thought it deserved the full weight of the question.
I was SO fortunate to interview Ashton Applewhite. In my readings and study on this topic, I couldn’t find a more compelling and articulate activist than she.
Ashton’s Ted Talk, “Let’s End Ageism” is a masterful storytelling experience that gives audience an opportunity to examine “a prejudice that pits us against our future selves.”
I read her book, “This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism” while on vacation. I’m grateful I had a moment in time without normal distractions to become engrossed in this book. Our episode delves into some really intriguing questions and possible self-examination for those of us in aging services. I hope you enjoy and will reflect on this conversation.