12 Tips to Maximize Friendships & Minimize Friendship Drama

Improve Your Conflict Skills

Practice self-control during disagreements: stick to the current issue, no name-calling, yelling, or threats. Take responsibility for your mistakes, create a solution agreeable to both parties, learn to give and accept an apology, release a grudge and move on. Keep the conflict between the original parties. Don’t let it ripple out in a wave of gossip, bad-mouthing, and taking sides. Say: “I’m having a conflict with Chandra right now. We’re trying to work it through.”