Agile Austin Coaching - STEM fields, neurodiversity and conflict

Are you aware of the propensity of conflict in the US and UK? The data are sobering:

• 85% of employees experience some kind of conflict
• 29% of employees nearly constantly experience conflict
• 49% of workplace conflict happens due to personality clashes and egos.

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Conflict often occurs when differences exist. Whether we are participants or witnesses, it affects all of us. However, not all conflict is bad. Healthy conflict presents significant potential benefits.
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Growing the conflict competence of individuals and teams can turn this around in our organizations and relationships! When I realized my conflict skills were inadequate, I asked for advice from an expert. Working together, we developed the techniques and tools that I will share in an experiential session with you at the August Meetup.
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I’ll also talk about the nature of some of the differences that exist between us. There is a continued conversation needed around neurodiversity in work, particularly in STEM fields. I’ll share six tips for how offices can start to create a neurodivergent friendly environment.

Bryan Stallings has been a thought leader in the Agile product development community for 20 years. He is a professional facilitator, Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), certified Co-Active coach, Organization and Relationship Systems coach (ORSC), and was faculty with the Agile Coaching Institute (ACI). Today he is the Chief Evangelist at Lucid Software, creators of the world’s leading products for visual collaboration and intelligent diagramming.