Leas, Discover Your Conflict Management Style

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Speed B. Leas, Discover Your Conflict Management Style, Revised edition. Alban Institute, 1997.

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Referenced in: Church Conflict, Strategies for Managing and Resolving

LifeandLeadership.com Summary

Often read as a companion to Moving Your Church Through Conflict, and more recently, George Bullard’s Every Congregation Needs a Little Conflict. This book gives a thorough description of six styles of approaching conflict: persuading, compelling, avoiding/accommodating, collaborating, negotiating, and supporting. Each of them is defined, with suggestions as to how and when to use them, and the probable outcomes. Includes a self-scoring inventory. This is a brief book (only 44 pages), but what it lacks in size it makes up for in practicality. No church leader should be without it.

From the Publisher

In this book, Speed Leas, a nationally recognized authority on conflict in congregations, helps you to assess your conflict response, learn tried-and-true approaches for dealing with various levels of conflict, and gain valuable insights on the nature of conflict and conflict resolution. Includes a Conflict Strategy Instrument, reflecting many years of learnings. Conflict is no stranger to clergy life. Learn how to effectively deal with it now.

About the Author

Speed Leas is a nationally known consultant to religious organizations and an educator of church leaders, including pastors, laity, and church executives. For more than three decades, he has worked full-time as a teacher and consultant to ecclesiastical groups throughout the United States and Canada. He has an extensive background as a management consultant to churches and has earned a special reputation as an authority on conflict. His experience with conflicted congregations, judicatories, and church agencies places him in a preeminent position in the nation. From this work and his research, he has written eleven books and numerous articles and monographs, and has given hundreds of seminars and lectures.


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