Innovation
Creates
Conflict.
Conflict
Kills
Innovation.
Stephen Stynes
Founder, Coach, Author
In over 20 years working with founders as a coach and mentor,
the No 1. problem I see over and over again is founder's
dysfunctional & destructive relationship with conflict.
As a founder, the way you relate to conflict shapes your leadership
more than any other skill.
Successful founders learn to harness their energy as the company
grows and turn the inevitable daily conflicts into
insight, momentum and competitive advantage.
This is founder-first leadership - and it starts with how you
learn to leverage conflict.
The Start-Up to Scale-Up
Founder Trap
We all know the stats about start-up failure. What most don´t know is the trap so many start-up founders fall victim to.
To turn an idea into a viable start-up you need to find or raise funding, get your initial team on board, develop an MVP and demonstrate product-market fit. To do that you need to:
* Decide fast
* Push through discomfort
* Create certainty
That works—until it doesn’t. Once you get traction, the rules of the game change.
But nobody tells you.
What is Proflict®?
Proflict® is set of core principles designed specifically for founders at high potential scale-ups to leverage tension — within yourself, between people, within teams and across the entire organisation that transform
how you lead.
Built on the Five Principles of Positive Conflict®, and based on research with hundreds of scale-up founders, Proflict integrates neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience to show founders how they can:
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Pause reactivity
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Access higher-order thinking
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Engage disagreement without damage
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Transform tension into momentum
This is more that emotional intelligence. It is relational mastery.
Learning to leverage positive conflict will unlock innovation, strengthen team relationships and avoid the fatal trap too many founders fall into in the transition from start-up to scale-up.
