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How to address conflict avoidance in long-term work teams

Our team has been working together for three years and we're good at our jobs but terrible at conflict — we all just absorb tension until someone explodes and then we pretend it never happened. I'm exhausted by how much energy we waste not addressing things.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional competence has masked relational dysfunction, creating a cycle of suppression and explosion that erodes trust.

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