Unlocking the benefits of Disagreeing Well

Disagreeing Well can help you achieve your goals by collaborating successfully through your differences

We are all different from each other. So, working well together means embracing that difference, even when we disagree.

This isn’t always easy – and it can be especially tricky for managers.

If they shy away from addressing disagreements, they can end up feeling they are walking on eggshells. Yet if they manage them poorly, this can result in grievances and divided teams. That’s why Disagreeing Well is built on the principle that safety comes not from the absence of disagreement but from our ability to manage it successfully, when it happens.

Disagreeing Well will show your managers:

How to create spaces that are safe for disagreement not safe from disagreement
How to challenge colleagues effectively and have difficult conversations when required
How to manage upset, whether it is caused by conflict or clumsiness

The process comprises a series of highly engaging workshops, covering areas such as making common cause around your organisation’s main goals (‘The Bigger Principle’), treating each other respectfully, and the difference between language and/or actions that are careless, thoughtless, or malicious.

These sessions are built around workplace scenarios that we know to be challenging, so participants can quickly put new ideas and techniques into practice.

Disagreeing Well will give you…

The ability to see difference, value it, and combine it in pursuit of your shared strategic goals, so that productive disagreement becomes an engine for innovation and good decision making.

Let’s start the conversation.

If you are looking for practical ways to negotiate difficulty, unite divided teams, or to foster more productive working relationships, please contact us to see how we can help.

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What our clients say.

The models and tools you introduced were practical, relevant, and easy to apply – serving as tangible techniques to take away and use immediately.

Jenny Sawyer - Director of People, Culture and Change Stonewater Housing

Behind the expertise.

‘Diversity can be divisive. People in your organisation may have different views about what it is and how to be inclusive. We’ll work with your people on the one thing they have in common - your organisation’s strategic purpose. We won’t ignore their differences; we’ll show them how to collaborate through those differences to achieve shared goals in ways they can fully embrace.’

Simon Fanshawe OBE.

Founder & Partner