Mastering Conflict: The Key to Unlocking Your Leadership Potential with Jerry Fu

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In this episode, Jerry Fu shares his personal journey of how leadership and conflict resolution saved his career in Pharmacy and led him to his current path. He discusses the challenges he faced in engaging with conflict and the lessons he learned along the way. Jerry also provides valuable tips for entrepreneurs on resolving conflicts with clients and team members, emphasizing the importance of assuming positive intent, setting common goals, and diffusing arguments through curiosity and affirmation. Lastly, Nicole and Jerry delve into the concept of turning weaknesses into superpowers and how Jerry embraced his own struggles with conflict resolution to help others overcome theirs.

Key Points:

• Leadership and conflict resolution saved Jerry's Pharmacy career after he was fired from a job and struggled with engaging in conflict.
• Initially, Jerry had a well-meaning but misguided view of grace, avoiding conflict with underperforming technicians, which led to management dissatisfaction.
• Jerry realized that teaching leadership workshops brought him joy and decided to launch a business focused on conflict resolution coaching for Asian American leaders.
• To position himself uniquely as a coach, Jerry narrowed down his ideal client to Asian Americans who struggle to engage in a society where deference is taught, and conflict often goes unresolved.
• Tips for resolving conflicts as an entrepreneur include assuming positive intent, setting common goals, and explaining how success benefits both parties.
• Diffusing arguments and winning by defusing involve affirming the relationship, staying coachable and curious, and focusing on what needs to change and how to help effect that change.
• Overcoming oneself involves turning weaknesses into superpowers, similar to the concept of desirable difficulties, where challenges can lead to personal growth and strength.
• Jerry's personal journey from a pessimistic fixed mindset to embracing conflict resolution as his specialty showcases the power of transforming weaknesses into strengths.

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