9 Best Conflict Resolution & Management Books For Life and Work
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Reading these types of books will help you gain imperative skills for the society we live in.
We tend to interact with people from all backgrounds, cultures, and economic levels.
These people also have different personalities and upbringings.
Books like these will help you discover ways to communicate effectively and bridge the gaps.
Conflict resolution books give you a powerful way to not only accomplish that goal, but in a manner that does not offend.
Best Books on Conflict Management & Resolution
Reading these types of books is essential, especially in a new leadership or management role.
It helps you to put out the flames before they turn into a burning massive fire.
Books like these will also teach you how to communicate more effectively.
This skill will not only help you in business.
The tools you will learn will aid you with conversations like the one with your next-door neighbor whose tree branches are hanging in your yard and are perilously close to your roof.
These particular books are great places to start:
- Confronting Without Offending by Deborah Pegues
- Forgive, Let Go, and Live by Deborah Pegues
- Managing Conflict God’s Way by Deborah Pegues
- Conflict Free Living by Joyce Meyer
- 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue by Deborah Pegues
- Choose Your Attitude, Change Your Life by Deborah Pegues
- 30 Days to a Great Attitude by Deborah Pegues
- Life Without Strife by Joyce Meyer
- 8 Ways to Live Conflict Free by Joyce Meyer
- Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone
1. Confronting without offending by Deborah Pegues
This book offers several practical and simple steps to resolving conflict and bringing it to a resolution.
Her book shows how to approach difficult situations for relationships that will help strengthen them rather than break them.
Meeting face-to-face to resolve an issue is difficult, but Pegues makes it easier by revealing how to avoid complications.
She thoughtfully shares examples of good communication and offers specific steps for dealing with conflicts.
This book is truly dynamic and I would recommend it over and over again!
2. Forgive, Let Go & Live by Deborah Pegues
In this book, Deborah takes you through steps to not only resolve the conflict but forgive those involved.
If you’ve been wounded by another, this book will empower you to find joy, freedom, and peace as you let go of your desire to avenge the wrong and make a commitment to release the offender from his debt.
3. Managing Conflict God’s Way by Deborah Pegues
Managing Conflict God’s Way is an easy-to-read book on how to deal with conflicts and offenses in a direct but non-offensive manner.
A refreshing, non-traditional approach to achieving unity keeps the reader turning the pages as the author puts forth the steps to an effective confrontation.
She gives sound advice for tailoring the encounter to the offender’s personality.
From the many cited examples of conflicts and the lessons learned, the reader will find that he will be able to restore harmony to even the most troubling situations at home, work and play.
4. Conflict Free Living by Joyce Meyer
5. 30 Days To Taming Your Tongue by Deborah Pegues
Certified behavioral consultant Deborah Pegues knows how easily a slip of the tongue can cause problems in personal and business relationships.
This is why she wrote the popular 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (over 1 million copies sold).
It is one of the best books I’ve ever read on resolving conflict, starting with what comes out of my mouth!
The book is so good! I highly recommend it!
6. Choose Your Attitude Change Your Life by Deborah Pegues
In Choose Your Attitude, Change Your Life, Deborah explores the root causes of 30 negative attitudes, their impact on your life and relationships, and how you can learn to think positively instead.
As a result, she helps you recognize and conquer counterproductive behaviors, such as criticizing the choices others make, being inflexible, and being indifferent to the needs of others.
7. Life Without Strife by Joyce Meyer
Joyce anchors you through conflict resolution showing you that it does not have to destroy your marriage, family, friendships, or any relationships.
8. 30 Days To A Great Attitude by Deborah Pegues
In this book, Deborah discusses how you may be in conflict because of a wrong attitude.
These attitudes may then be derailing your personal and professional relationships.
Here’s just a sampling of the attitudes Pegues tackles head-on for conflict resolution:
- Condescension
- Control
- Envy
- Intolerance
- Judgmental
- Resentful
- Self-centered
- Sullen
- Victim mentality
9. 8 Ways To Live Conflict Free (Audio Book) by Joyce Meyer
More conflict resolution books
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What other conflict management books would you add to the list?
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Moses Angupale kelili
April 1, 2018 at 3:40 PM
Good book’s titles I need to enlarge my brain and solve conflicts that had taken half a century in South Sudan