Building Conflict Competence: Leveraging Conflict for Performance

Join us for our May Monthly Meeting as Wes Martin presents, Building Conflict Competence: Leveraging Conflict for Performance.

Conflict in organizations is both inevitable and natural. The question, then, is not whether organizations will experience conflict, but how they experience conflict, and what comes as a result.

In this workshop, organizational psychologist and co-founder of Grovity Leadership Wes Martin will explore why conflict arises, how individuals experience and relate to conflict, and what organizational leaders can do to model conflict competence, while also building organizations that leverage conflict to strengthen, rather than diminish, problem-solving, innovation, and relationships.

Created specifically for talent and HR leaders, this session examines how to design organizations that produce healthy conflict outcomes and how to build the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral skills required for conflict competence.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify common sources of conflict in organizations.
2. Understand how individuals perceive, experience, and respond to conflict differently.
3. Recognize the role organizational culture plays in shaping conflict outcomes.

Are you worried about parking? No worries, parking is free across the street to the Lume. 

Meet the speaker: 

Wes Martin is the Co-Founder and COO of Grovity Leadership. Wes is unwavering in his belief that anyone can be an exceptional leader if they connect to and lead from their values, maximize their strengths, know and care for those they lead, and learn to manage and mitigate their weaknesses. Wes had led in a variety of settings including construction, non-profit, higher education, professional sports, and most recently, consulting. His breadth of experience allows him to connect with leaders across a range of industries and leadership stages.

Wes holds a master's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University. Additionally, he is an ACC credentialed coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and a Professional Coach through the Co-Active Coach Training Institute. In his work as an Executive Coach, Team Coach, and Strategic Planning facilitator, Wes helps leaders, teams, and organizations clarify what matters most and begin taking action towards making the ideal a reality.

While Wes holds extensive expertise in organizational psychology and leadership, he finds his clients experience the most success when he serves them as a collaborative thought partner - walking alongside them to help them achieve greater levels of alignment with self, influence with others, and impact on their organizations and communities.

Most importantly, Wes is a husband and father to two children. His family deeply informs the work he does through Grovity Leadership as he's driven by a vision to create leaders and organizations for whom he would want his children to work. Wes lives in Edmond, Oklahoma.