Goal Setting: Essentials 9
How do you resolve conflicts in goal-setting? Thank you for tuning in for this morning edition of Leading Right. I am Abiodun Fijabi.
There are bound to be conflict of goals. The reason is because there are so many activities or needs competing for your scarce resources. Your resources are limited. To be sure, you have but twenty-four hours in a day and time is inelastic. You are limited in space; you can only be in one place at a time. You have limited financial resources. No matter how rich you are, you cannot buy just everything you want. Even in the area of talents, you are limited. No matter how multitalented you are, there are many things you do not know and many things others can do much better than you. You have limited influence and your circle of influence is fluid. There are things you cannot get done through people at some point in your life and you may have to delay the activity or elicit another person’s help.
When your needs outstrip your resources conflicts arise. Conflicts can be healthy or destructive. It depends a lot on your attitude. Conflicts can be an avenue for a display of maturity and creativity. It can also be a reason to be overwhelmed and succumb to hopelessness and depression. Great leaders use conflicts of interests as opportunity to demonstrate their sagacity and creativity. They prioritize their goals according to their value systems and deal with the goals from top priority down. I am sure you will like to use conflicts creatively too.
Let’s say your goals programme has components that require that you build a new home and send your child to a great school with high tuition fees. You also need to go on a family holidays that you think is long overdue. And there is a brother-in-law who will be out of the University unless he gets a financial help. There may be more. The challenge is that your financial resources cannot meet all these needs. Lesser men will buckle under this heavy burden and give in to depression. Great leaders will prioritize these needs according to their value systems. After sessions of prayers and sound reasoning, they might discover not all activities that are urgent are important and not all important activities are urgent. They might also discover they can expand their resources by eliciting the support of others. Sometimes, time just comes in handy to help them resolve the conflicts. Circumstances change and the choice between conflicting goals just become very clear. In the case cited above, one of your children may fall sick, making the family holiday unnecessary. The remaining goals may now be within your financial resources. Conflicts resolved.
In the event of conflicting goals of two team members in an organization, it is the responsibility of the leader to step in and resolve the conflicts in the best interests of the organization.
So, do not be overwhelmed by the conflicts of interests on your goals programme. They can be resolved through prioritization based on your value system and time. The conflicts may be opportunity for you to demonstrate your creativity.
There are bound to be conflict of goals. The reason is because there are so many activities or needs competing for your scarce resources. Your resources are limited. To be sure, you have but twenty-four hours in a day and time is inelastic. You are limited in space; you can only be in one place at a time. You have limited financial resources. No matter how rich you are, you cannot buy just everything you want. Even in the area of talents, you are limited. No matter how multitalented you are, there are many things you do not know and many things others can do much better than you. You have limited influence and your circle of influence is fluid. There are things you cannot get done through people at some point in your life and you may have to delay the activity or elicit another person’s help.
When your needs outstrip your resources conflicts arise. Conflicts can be healthy or destructive. It depends a lot on your attitude. Conflicts can be an avenue for a display of maturity and creativity. It can also be a reason to be overwhelmed and succumb to hopelessness and depression. Great leaders use conflicts of interests as opportunity to demonstrate their sagacity and creativity. They prioritize their goals according to their value systems and deal with the goals from top priority down. I am sure you will like to use conflicts creatively too.
Let’s say your goals programme has components that require that you build a new home and send your child to a great school with high tuition fees. You also need to go on a family holidays that you think is long overdue. And there is a brother-in-law who will be out of the University unless he gets a financial help. There may be more. The challenge is that your financial resources cannot meet all these needs. Lesser men will buckle under this heavy burden and give in to depression. Great leaders will prioritize these needs according to their value systems. After sessions of prayers and sound reasoning, they might discover not all activities that are urgent are important and not all important activities are urgent. They might also discover they can expand their resources by eliciting the support of others. Sometimes, time just comes in handy to help them resolve the conflicts. Circumstances change and the choice between conflicting goals just become very clear. In the case cited above, one of your children may fall sick, making the family holiday unnecessary. The remaining goals may now be within your financial resources. Conflicts resolved.
In the event of conflicting goals of two team members in an organization, it is the responsibility of the leader to step in and resolve the conflicts in the best interests of the organization.
So, do not be overwhelmed by the conflicts of interests on your goals programme. They can be resolved through prioritization based on your value system and time. The conflicts may be opportunity for you to demonstrate your creativity.
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