Caution Grasshopper!

Imagine if our workplace teammates agreed that one could pause a conversation, using a 1.Caution, instead of reacting angrily, or suppressing our feelings of injustice, when we were experiencing some unfair treatment? And, if the person who was infringing on us ignored or challenged our caution, we could then up the ante by 2.Objecting to their behavior. If still no result, we could agree to 3.Stop the conversation and allow our peers to adjudicate our conflict. All without allowing our emotions to interfere in our spat. I think it is possible.

2044: Celebrating 20 Years of SpatzAI

Today, we gather to celebrate a remarkable milestone: 20 years of SpatzAI, the revolutionary system that has transformed human behavior and relationships across the globe. Initially designed to address objectionable behavior in workplace teams, SpatzAI grew into something much more profound—an indispensable part of daily life that has reshaped the way we engage with one another, resolve conflict, and build harmony.

The Cost of Workplace Conflict in Australia

Workplace conflict in Australia is estimated to cost between $6-12 billion annually.Some 30 percent of a typical manager's time is spent dealing with disputes and conflicts.On the surface you wouldn't know it, but this problem is endemic and runs deep within organizations. We have created a fourfold solution that allows employees to address conflict and... Continue Reading →

Fighting Hidden Conflict Resolution

Malicious gossip is the scourge of most organizations. It is usually how most individuals in organizations deal with their minor conflicts. Also referred to as backbiting, badmouthing, venting or backstabbing, it can only exist if we do it in secret. It's our hidden conflict resolution and so ubiquitous that we don't even seem to notice... Continue Reading →

Conflicts in Disguise

We should be able to test and resolve all of our spats to ensure that they are not the more severe dispute or conflict. Let's try to resolve all our minor team spats mainly because some of these spats could be conflicts in disguise and ultimately could be responsible for causing the the next startup team to fail.

Code of Misconduct

We are all conductors in a team, I believe. Like electricity conductors, only in our case we are conductors of information and may be very similar to nodes in a network. And the network suffers when we have a mis-conduction between two team members caused by a misconduct.

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