My Interpersonal Conflict Analysis

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Throughout my time at Arizona State University and my internships I encountered different conflict situations, which required different skill sets to be resolved.
In my personal life I did encounter some conflicts with my family members and friends. As a young child I did not posses any skills to manage my conflict efficiently and responsibly. Over the years I have developed my conflict management skills by taking a meta-conflict perspective. By this I mean that I have developed my ability to analyze my strengths and weaknesses and improve on the mistakes I made during those conflicts. I applied this skill to most of my relations, may they be with family, friends or even at work. Another strength or positive attribute for me is my willingness …show more content…

By this I mean that every situation is different and needs to be handled differently. For example situations like breaking up with your girlfriend or arguing with your family about deciding which college to attend are very different situations. They need to be handled with care and create a kind of win/win situation.
Therefore I feel my ability to not handle such situations with care and my inability create a win/win situation are two of my weaknesses in conflict management.
According to my understanding of interpersonal conflicts are conflicts, which occur between two individuals who are very different from one another and have very different personalities. To explain two of my interpersonal conflict issues based on this understanding I am providing the following example.
First Conflict:
I was an intern in a tile manufacturing company called H&R Johnson back home in Mumbai, India. I was responsible for collecting market research data for a new product being launched by the company. I was told this project would take about 4-5 weeks. While I was in my 3rd week the company hired more interns and told me to handover my data and work under them. This created a lot of on-going conflicts between the company, the new interns and me. I learnt from this and have since tried to reduce conflicts at

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