Conflicts in a Team

Conflicts often arise between individuals and organizations they belong to. What are some common causes of such conflicts and how might these be managed? Use one specific organization for illustration.

Working in a team can provide lots of opportunities to improve a variety of skills, including interpersonal skills, stress management, problem solving and so on. However, working with other people can also be a great challenge. Conflicts may arise between individuals, resulting in some serious problems.
First of all, some communication problems may exist among team members. Conflicts arise when team members cannot speak in the same languages. For instance, a person whose mother tongue is French may have difficulties in communicating with British or American people, because his English is not fluent enough or he totally does not understand English. Secondly, different personality types are another common cause of the conflicts in a team. Conflicts may arise when two people who have strong personalities cannot get on well with each other or are not comfortable with the way that the other one makes job done. This situation frequently takes place when two high D persons cannot work well with each other. (“DISC assessment”, Wikipedia) Without effective communication, everything gets stuck or at least slowed down.
In order to settle these problems, emotional intelligence plays an important role. By emotional intelligence, every member of the team will adjust themselves to better adapt to the team environment. For instance, if the environment requires that every member should be calm, rational and cooperative, emotional intelligence will help and drive them to behave as what they are supposed to. Also, by taking advantage of some team activities, for example, playing basketball, attending a party or having a picnic, members can enhance the bonding of the team and know each other better among themselves. To a large extent, through those activities, they can eliminate or at lease minimize the obstacles in their communication. They will know the background and personality type of others. Thus, they will develop a common and effective way to communicate with each other. Team membership is just like friendship, which is built on numerous time and activities together. Besides, the deeper they know each other, the easier they will get job done together.
To conclude, conflicts often arise between individuals in a team; however, emotion intelligence can help us to manage better so as to avoid those conflicts.