March 12, 2025, 6:45 p.m.
In the ever-evolving landscape of professional and personal relationships, navigating conflicts effectively is an essential skill. Whether you're leading a team, working collaboratively, or managing personal relationships, the ability to handle disagreements and misunderstandings can significantly impact your success and well-being. Conflict management training provides invaluable strategies and insights to transform potential disputes into opportunities for growth and understanding. With this in mind, we've curated a collection of the top 47 conflict management training quotes to inspire and guide you on your journey to becoming a more effective communicator and problem-solver. These quotes offer wisdom from renowned thinkers, leaders, and experts in the field, each providing a unique perspective on resolving conflicts with grace and efficiency. Dive into these quotes and empower yourself with the knowledge to turn conflicts into harmonious resolutions.
1. “Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.” - Stan Slap
2. “What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.” - Stan Slap
3. “Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.” - Stan Slap
4. “Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.” - Stan Slap
5. “A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend; this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to have it.” - Stan Slap
6. “The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.” - Stan Slap
7. “Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.” - Stan Slap
8. “Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.” - Stan Slap
9. “The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.” - Stan Slap
10. “The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.” - Stan Slap
11. “Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.” - Stan Slap
12. “Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.” - Stan Slap
13. “What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.” - Stan Slap
14. “Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.” - Stan Slap
15. “The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.” - Stan Slap
16. “Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.” - Stan Slap
17. “Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.” - Stan Slap
18. “The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.” - Stan Slap
19. “You can’t sell it outside if you can’t sell it inside.” - Stan Slap
20. “Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.” - Stan Slap
21. “The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.” - Stan Slap
22. “Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.” - Stan Slap
23. “You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies; they trust people.” - Stan Slap
24. “There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.” - Stan Slap
25. “The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?” - Stan Slap
26. “Success means: I want to know the work I do means something to somebody and helps make the world, if not a Better place, not a worse one.” - Stan Slap
27. “Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.” - Stan Slap
28. “Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?” - Stan Slap
29. “The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.” - Stan Slap
30. “Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.” - Stan Slap
31. “The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.” - Stan Slap
32. “Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.” - Stan Slap
33. “Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.” - Stan Slap
34. “Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.” - Stan Slap
35. “Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.” - Stan Slap
36. “Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.” - Stan Slap
37. “Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.” - Stan Slap
38. “When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.” - Stan Slap
39. “When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.” - Stan Slap
40. “True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.” - Stan Slap
41. “Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.” - Stan Slap
42. “Emotional commitment is a personal choice. Managers understand this even if their companies don’t.” - Stan Slap
43. “A manager’s emotional commitment is worth more than their financial, intellectual and physical commitment combined.” - Stan Slap
44. “Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.” - Stan Slap
45. “Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.” - Stan Slap
46. “What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.” - Stan Slap
47. “It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.” - Stan Slap