Purpose

To understand the roots of conflict, assess current conflict-resolution skills, and devise new strategies to actively and assertively overcome the tensions and other disagreements that threaten productivity and cooperation

Overview

  • ROI for your organization
  • Professional development to achieve individual goals
  • Understanding and managing conflict
  • Strengthening assertiveness
  • Sensing and resolving negative conflict quickly and objectively

Understanding Conflict

  • Exploring your beliefs about conflict
  • Managing conflict - a self-assessment
  • Defining conflict
  • Positives and Negatives of conflict
  • Understanding the cycles of conflict

Assessing Your Approach in Handling Conflict

  • “Conflict Style Inventory” diagnostic
  • Model of Conflict Management
  • Summary of Style rationales
  • Sensing conflict
  • Finding the causes of conflict
  • The cause of conflict menu
  • Behaviors, aims and methods that cause conflict

Managing Conflict

  • Reducing the amount of places where conflict can hide
  • Determining your response to conflict
  • Improving relationships with the individuals you have conflict with

Managing Conflict as a Team

  • Exploring your beliefs about teamwork
  • Characteristics of a productive team
  • Putting together a dynamic team
  • Requirements of a team leader
  • Roles a team member should assume and avoid

Maintaining Momentum