Tired of Team Tension? Try This Leadership Conflict Resolution System

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July 23, 2025

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Team tension is draining your momentum—this system will fix it.

In this episode on Leadership Conflict Resolution, agency leaders learn how to stop avoiding hard conversations, restore fractured culture, and lead with clarity—using a repeatable system that actually works.

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How Leadership Conflict Resolution Transforms Culture and Cashflow

In this episode titled “Tired of Team Tension? Try This Leadership Conflict Resolution System,” Dr. William Attaway is joined by Greg Stephens, executive coach, bestselling author, and founder of Alignment Resources. With over 25 years of experience working with Fortune 500 leaders, Greg has seen firsthand what unresolved tension does to performance, trust, and profitability.

What he shares isn’t theory. It’s a 20-week leadership conflict resolution system that gets real results. In one case, it saved a company several million dollars—simply by transforming how one executive showed up in difficult conversations.

Greg’s approach helps leaders move from reaction to response, from silence to clarity. He reveals how to rewire your emotional accounting, shift how you listen, and create psychological safety in your organization—without adding complexity. If your agency is growing fast but friction is rising, this episode gives you the blueprint to lead better conversations, build high-performance culture, and scale sustainably.

If any of these apply to you, this episode is worth your time:

Your team avoids tough conversations—and it’s slowing delivery, decisions, and momentum.
You’re tired of being the bottleneck for clarity, alignment, or next steps.
You’ve invested in team culture but still feel misalignment or undercurrent tension.
You know micromanagement isn’t the answer, but you haven’t found a better system yet.
You’re scaling past 7-figures and looking to lead through systems, not personality alone.
You want language and structure for coaching your team through conflict, not around it.

The Conversations You Avoid Are Costing You More Than You Know

As leaders, we don’t avoid hard conversations because we don’t care—we avoid them because we don’t feel equipped. But unresolved tension never stays hidden. It shows up in misfires, meetings that go nowhere, and performance that plateaus.

What Greg reminded me of in this conversation is something I see often in my own coaching practice: breakthroughs are waiting just on the other side of a breakdown you’ve been tolerating. And too often, leaders tell themselves they’ll handle it “soon,” not realizing the compound cost of delay.

Let me be clear—this isn’t about confrontation. It’s about connection. A catalytic leader doesn’t react emotionally or overcorrect with control. They create space for safety and truth, and they do it consistently.

Here’s the shift: instead of avoiding what’s uncomfortable, build a system that makes it easier to lean in. Systems build confidence. They create rhythm, structure, and repeatability. That’s how trust is rebuilt. That’s how culture scales.

If your agency is growing but your clarity isn’t, this episode is a call to examine what you’ve avoided—and lead through it, not around it.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode– From Avoided Conflict to Scalable Clarity

00:00 – Introduction to Greg Stephens
02:43 – From sales to executive coaching: Greg’s leadership journey
04:42 – Learning while working full-time: investing in behavioral mastery
06:34 – Inside Greg’s 20-week leadership conflict resolution system
08:52 – Teaching Gen Z leaders how to lead hard conversations
10:41 – The invisible cost of unspoken conflict in fast-scaling teams
13:06 – Cleaning up 36 broken relationships in 2.5 years
16:26 – Why teams get stuck in the past—and how to break free
18:53 – Saving millions through culture change (real-world case study)
21:54 – Respect, perception, and team silence: the blind spots leaders miss
24:54 – The culture shift that took just 6 months
29:08 – The books that helped shape Greg’s coaching philosophy
33:00 – Connect with Greg + explore his programs and podcast

Books Mentioned

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Warner Klemp
Crucial Conversations by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
Crucial Accountability by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
Crucial Influence by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
Do You Take Your Own Advice? by Anidio Mahal

Connect with Greg Stephens

To learn more about Greg’s leadership conflict resolution programs, visitalignment-resources.com or reach out directly at greg@alignment-resources.com. You can also find his book Build New Bridges and his upcoming podcast A Spiritual Peace through the site.

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About Dr. William Attaway:

Dr. William Attaway is a seasoned Executive Mindset and Leadership Coach who helps 6-, 7-, and 8-figure digital agency owners scale their businesses with clarity, systems, and confidence. With nearly 30 years of experience, he equips growth-driven entrepreneurs to build high-performing teams, implement scalable systems, and transition from freelancer to CEO.

He hosts the Catalytic Leadership™ Podcast—ranked in the Top 1.5% of podcasts globally (source: Listen Notes)—with a weekly reach of over 50,000. Each episode features elite agency owners and top digital entrepreneurs sharing what actually works when scaling a service-based business.

From leadership development and visionary thinking to mindset transformation and team optimization, Dr. Attaway empowers agency leaders to build a business that thrives without their constant oversight—and a team that flourishes under intentional, scalable leadership.