{"id":449,"date":"2015-03-04T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T10:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocksolidbizdevelopment.com\/ourblog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:20:24","slug":"lets-get-confrontational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksolidbizdevelopment.com\/ourblog\/lets-get-confrontational\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s get confrontational!"},"content":{"rendered":"

To many of us, confrontation is something to be avoided.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The word conjures up something unpleasant or uncomfortable.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>We imagine two people standing toe-to-toe, their faces red, the veins in their necks bulging, and screaming at one another at the tops of their lungs.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Well, if that\u2019s the way you think of confrontation, it\u2019s easy to understand why you\u2019d want to avoid it.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>But confrontation doesn\u2019t have to be that way . . . in fact, it <\/span>shouldn\u2019t<\/span><\/span><\/em> be that way.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Besides, when you avoid confronting an issue of some sort, it\u2019s unlikely to just go away.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s more likely that it will fester and get more and more difficult to solve as time goes on.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>So if it\u2019s in your nature to avoid confrontation, please read below for some thoughts on how you might approach confrontation in a more positive, constructive way . . . a way that doesn\u2019t involve yelling and screaming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get confrontational!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Confrontation gets a bad rap because it does bring up images of anger and unpleasantness.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>But it shouldn\u2019t.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>According to the dictionary, to \u201cconfront\u201d is \u201cto come face-to-face with.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>That\u2019s all.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>It doesn\u2019t say anything about anger or fists pounding desks or anything like that\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0. . . \u00a0it only says \u201cto come face-to-face with.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>That doesn\u2019t sound so bad, does it?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>To be sure, some issues we may need to face are loaded with more emotional baggage than others, but that doesn\u2019t mean we should ignore or avoid them.<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem here is that if people see that the CEO avoids confronting the tough issues, they will too.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Or worse, if they see the CEO confronting issues in a way that confirms their worst fears about confrontation (red face, yelling, screaming, etc.), they will continue to avoid it.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>So the answer must be for the CEO to set a positive example for how we handle confrontation around here.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Here\u2019s what that positive example would look like:<\/span><\/p>\n