The Uniformed Services, encompassing the Armed Forces and national security organisations, face daily challenges both internally and externally in an ever increasing hostile environment.  Constantly changing Government policies and doctrines require the uniformed services to adapt and react in the full glare of media publicity to fast moving scenarios whether in the war torn cities of Iraq or on the streets of suburban England.  This affects both the training of its men and women at all levels and the management of personnel with a wide ethnic and educational background.

Conflict can be identified in a wide ranging number of areas eg:


Training

Shortage of time, inadequately trained staff and strict formalised procedures for training recruits can lead to over assertive behaviour and subsequent bullying.


Junior versus Senior Rank Interface

Fast promotions and regimented rules of behaviour in an increasingly younger selection of personnel makes the rift between rank structures wider and more identifiable.


Uniform versus Civilian

Differing ethos of work and management styles leads to conflict within the work place between the two types of workers.


Committee Structure

The requirement to produce results based on poorly defined targets leads to adversarial meetings between separate departments with different agendas.


Military Peacekeeping

Greater emphasis being placed on the peacekeeping techniques of uniformed men and women who have actually been trained for an entirely different role. Humanitarian issues come into conflict with mission aims and policy requirements with young men and women being asked to make fast judgements under the scrutiny of the world press.


Work versus Family Life

Uniformed Services have an expectation of working long, antisocial hours. This does not accord with their personal needs of having a stable family life. Individual conflict in trying to balance the two is inevitable. 


Our Training Offers: 

	Provides understanding of the causes of conflict and not just the symptoms.
	Improved communications between ranks and management structures.

	Enables in-house training to be carried out in a non confrontational manner.
	Building of cohesive teams.

	Facilitating and harmonising diversity in meetings.
	Accentuating self worth and promoting dialogue.
	Empowering uniformed personnel to deal with stressful situations, including peacekeeping roles, in a non- coercive manner.