If you are going to lead, you better get comfortable with conflict!

In leadership, like life, it's hard to avoid conflict for long.

Conflict will inevitably arise between peers, with those you lead, and with those who lead you. Often leaders are required to mediate the conflicts of others, guiding the discussion to a successful resolution.

Yet, leaders are not necessarily born with abilities for handling conflict well. Leaders often find themselves failing at it - or avoiding it altogether.

We invite you and your leadership teams to join us for the next broadcast in the Ultimate Leadership series on CCN and gain much-needed skills for How to Handle Conflict as a Leader.

In partnership with Dr. John Townsend and Dr. Henry Cloud, CCN’s monthly Ultimate Leadership training series helps leaders in business and ministry arenas successfully meet the challenges of leadership.

This month, Dr. John Townsend, bestselling author and clinical psychologist, will train leaders to enter conflict, model it, and teach it in healthy ways.

"...those organizations who have a leader who is competent in conflict are fortunate, in that problems are solved, disagreement is seen as productive, and the church or company can continue moving forward," says Dr. Townsend.

In this broadcast you'll receive practical tools that will help you:

• Address your own reservations about conflict.
• Learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy conflict.
• Utilize healthy conflict as an opportunity for growth.
• Find solutions during conflicts.

Join us this month on Ultimate Leadership and learn how healthy conflict can become your ally!

Dr. John Townsend, a clinical psychologist, is co-founder and co-director of Cloud-Townsend, Inc. He is the best-selling author of Hiding from Love, and coauthor of Boundaries, Boundaries with Kids, Boundaries in Marriage, Boundaries in Dating, 12 “Christian” Beliefs That Can Drive You Crazy, Safe People, The Mom Factor, Raising Great Kids, and How People Grow. He is a specialist on such topics as adult psychotherapy, biblical models of personality functioning and character growth, and spiritual issues of psychopathology.