by Catherine Stothart | Oct 3, 2026 | Managing Conflict
I’ve just come back from a conference of the British Association for Psychological Type – an organisation whose remit is to promote the knowledge and use of Jungian type. The theme of the conference was Unlocking Human Potential. What struck me was how many of the...
by Catherine Stothart | Jul 22, 2025 | Emotional Intelligence, Managing Conflict
Let’s face it, however much we want to get on with people, there will always be times for disagreeing. Sometimes we choose to keep our opinions to ourselves in the interests of harmony, but at other times, we voice our thoughts. Getting on well with other people does...
by Catherine Stothart | Jun 24, 2025 | Managing Conflict, Personality styles
Can you get on with everyone at work? We’ve all had “difficult” colleagues – perhaps the impatient go-getter, the stick-to-the-rules pedant, the excitable attention-seeker or the indecisive procrastinator. Personality clashes are the top cause of conflict at work and...
by Catherine Stothart | Oct 19, 2023 | Managing Conflict
I’ve run several team-building workshops recently. One topic that often comes up is how to deal with conflict, both within the team and between teams. Conflict Triggers and our Values When conflict blows up “out of nowhere” and escalates quickly, it is usually because...
by Catherine Stothart | Dec 16, 2021 | Extraversion and Introversion, Personality styles
Zoe Williams wrote this week in the Guardian about the things that can go wrong when we get together with family at Christmas. It’s not surprising that there are a few, let’s say, “tensions”, when we bring together people of different generations, add new...
