When you want to resolve a conflict with someone, make sure to pick a good time for both of you to discuss it. Just because you have an urgent need to resolve the conflict does not mean that the other person is ready. If you force the encounter, you will surely compound the conflict. In the workspace scenario, A did not think about her timing when she confronted B with her observations, as a result, she created a bigger conflict. Most of the time when we approach someone about a conflict, we want to prove that our view is right and we want them to understand our view; yet most of the time we are unwilling to hear the other side. When this happens, both people usually end up more frustrated and typically give up and don’t ever really resolve the original conflict. Having one unresolved conflict between theme makes it more likely they’ll run into more conflict and problems.
Whenever you don’t resolve a conflict, it leaves the door open to bigger ones in the future. Again using the workspace scenario, because A didn’t use good judgment in deciding when to confront B, they will be looking for other things that don’t work between them, and undoubtedly they will find them. This will make it even more difficult to resolve any future conflict, because they will have to go back to the original conflict and resolve that one before they can move on.